gender : Idioms & Phrases
Common gender
(Gram.) , the gender comprising words that may be of either the masculine or the feminine gender.
Webster 1913
gender agreement
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noun agreement in grammatical gender between words in the same construction
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gender identity
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noun your identity as it is experienced with regard to your individuality as male or female; awareness normally begin in infancy and is reinforced during adolescence
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gender role
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noun the overt expression of attitudes that indicate to others the degree of your maleness or femaleness
- your gender role is the public expression of your gender identity
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grammatical gender
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noun 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
gender.