What is the meaning of gender?

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noun

  • 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.
  • The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles.
    • usage: "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"
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