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;
"she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"
gender的用法和樣例:
例句
用作名詞 (n.)
German has three genders. 德語中有三性。
The male and female genders are equal. 男性和女性是平等的。
Was it gender discrimination or were the female students simply superior writers? 是性別歧視還是女生天生就是擅長於寫作呢?
Native English speakers are more gender blind when they mention their cousins. 在涉及表親的時候,英語母語的人更容易混淆性別。