Definition of genders. Meaning of genders. Synonyms of genders

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Definition of genders

Gender
Gender Gen"der, n. [OF. genre, gendre (with excrescent d.), F. genre, fr. L. genus, generis, birth, descent, race, kind, gender, fr. the root of genere, gignere, to beget, in pass., to be born, akin to E. kin. See Kin, and cf. Generate, Genre, Gentle, Genus.] 1. Kind; sort. [Obs.] ``One gender of herbs.' --Shak. 2. Sex, male or female. [Obs. or Colloq.] 3. (Gram.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living objects. --R. Morris. Note: Adjectives and pronouns are said to vary in gender when the form is varied according to the gender of the words to which they refer.
Gender
Gender Gen"der, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gendered; p. pr. & vb. n. Gendering.] [OF. gendrer, fr. L. generare. See Gender, n.] To beget; to engender.
Gender
Gender Gen"der, v. i. To copulate; to breed. [R.] --Shak.

Meaning of genders from wikipedia

- specific genders besides "man" and "woman", such as the hijras of South Asia; these are often referred to as third genders (and fourth genders, etc.)....
- female genders. In the case of languages which have masculine and feminine genders, the relation between biological **** and grammatical gender tends to...
- some types of gamelan, two gendèrs are used, both spanning approximately two and a half octaves, the gendèr barung and the gendèr panerus, pitched an octave...
- agender were two of 50 available custom genders added to Facebook in February 2014. Agender has also been a gender option on OkCupid since November 2014...
- Genders is the surname of: William Genders (1890–1971), British cyclist in the 1920 Olympics Roy Genders (1913–1985), English cricketer Anselm Genders...
- of all genders, or regardless of their **** or gender identity. Pan****ual people might refer to themselves as gender-blind, ****erting that gender and ****...
- Records noted that George's gender transition made him and Lori the first set of conjoined twins to identify as different genders. Born as Lori and Dori Schappell...
- simultaneously. Most cultures use a gender binary, having two genders (boys/men and girls/women). In this binary model, gender and ****uality may be ****umed by...
- are strata of oppression between genders. The history of gender studies looks at the different perspectives of gender. This discipline examines the ways...
- defined genders. The existence of accepted social categories other than man or woman may alleviate the distress ****ociated with cross-gender identity...