Gender - Definition
gender
n 1: a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the
agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in
some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European
languages it is usually based on sex or animateness [syn:
gender, grammatical gender]
2: the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of
their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of
the foetus" [syn: sex, gender, sexuality]