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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle Englishgendre, gender (see also gendres), from Middle Frenchgendre, genre, from Latingenus(“kind, sort”).

gender (countable and uncountable, pluralgenders)

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle Englishgendren, genderen, from Middle Frenchgendrer, from Latingenerāre.

gender (third-person singular simple presentgenders, present participlegendering, simple past and past participlegendered)

1. (archaic) To engender.
   • 1854, Robert Gordon (D.D., Minister of the Free High Church, Edinburgh.), Christ as Made Known to the Ancient Church: an Exposition of the Revelation of Divine Grace, as Unfolded in the Old Testament Scriptures, page 400:

     […] being a stranger to those restrictions which were afterwards laid on his posterity by the Mosaic law, and which gendered a servile frame of spirit.

   • 1893, The Academy and Literature, page 71:

     Our whole life was passed in public, which gendered a sympathy and good fellowship that always distinguishes Wykehamists from the rest of mankind.

2. (archaic or obsolete) To breed.

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Englishgender.

Pronunciation[edit]

gender m or n (pluralgenders)

1. gender(mental analog of sex)

See also[edit]

• (grammar)common, feminine, masculine, neuter
• (sex)female, male, hermaphroditic; man, woman, hermaphrodite
• genderqueer, bigender, non-binary, transgender, androgyne, crossdresser, hijra, kathoey, transsexual, two-spirit

gender (third-person singular simple presentgenders, present participlegendering, simple past and past participlegendered)

1. (sociology) To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives…) that express a certain gender.
2. (sociology) To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
   • 2003, Reading the Anonymous Female Voice, in The Anonymous Renaissance: Cultures of Discretion in Tudor-Stuart England, page 244:

     Yet because texts by “female authors” are not dependent on the voice to gender the text, the topics that they address and the traditions that they employ seem broader and somewhat less constrained by gender stereotypes.

   • 2021 May 22, Megan Specia, “Siri and Alexa Reinforce Gender Bias, U.N. Finds”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     “Obedient and obliging machines that pretend to be women are entering our homes, cars and offices,” Saniye Gulser Corat, Unesco’s director for gender equality, said in a statement. “The world needs to pay much closer attention to how, when and whether A.I. technologies are gendered and, crucially, who is gendering them.”

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