I. ˈjendə(r) noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English gendre, from Middle French gendre, genre, from Latin gener-, genus birth, race, kind, class — more at kin
1.
a. archaic : kind , sort
b. : sex
black divinities of the feminine gender — Charles Dickens
2. linguistics
a. : any of two or more subclasses within a grammatical class of a language (such as noun, pronoun, adjective, verb) that are partly arbitrary but also partly based on distinguishable characteristics such as shape, social rank, manner of existence (as animate or inanimate), or sex (as masculine, feminine, or neuter) and that determine agreement with and selection of other words or grammatical forms
Latin has three genders, masculine, feminine, and neuter
French has two genders, masculine and feminine
b. : membership of a word or a grammatical form in such a subclass
a Latin noun has gender , number, and case
an English noun has, strictly speaking, no gender
c. : an inflectional form showing membership in such a subclass
a Latin adjective agrees in gender with the noun it modifies
II. verb
( gendered ; gendered ; gendering -d(ə)riŋ ; genders )
Etymology: Middle English gendren, genderen, from Middle French gendrer, from Latin generare, from Latin gener- genus
transitive verb
: breed
intransitive verb
: copulate
III. ˈgenˌde(ə)r, ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷, gənˈd- noun
( -s )
Etymology: Javanese gendèr
: a Javanese percussion instrument like a xylophone
IV. noun
: the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex