(~s)
1.
A person’s ~ is the fact that they are male or female.
Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their ~.
...groups that are traditionally discriminated against on grounds of ~, colour, race, or age.
= sex
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2.
You can refer to all male people or all female people as a particular ~.
While her observations may be true about some men, they could hardly apply to the entire ~.
...the different abilities and skills of the two ~s.
= sex
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3.
In grammar, the ~ of a noun, pronoun, or adjective is whether it is masculine, feminine, or neuter. A word’s ~ can affect its form and behaviour. In English, only personal pronouns such as ‘she’, reflexive pronouns such as ‘itself’, and possessive determiners such as ‘his’ have ~.
In both Welsh and Irish the word for ‘moon’ is of feminine ~.
N-VAR