GENDERED

Verb

gendered

simple past tense and past participle of gender (ā€œassign gender toā€)

(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of gender (ā€œengenderā€)

Adjective

gendered (comparative more gendered, superlative most gendered)

(linguistics, of a language) Having grammatical gender.

Pertaining to gender or having attributes due to gender.

Divided by gender.

Anagrams

• degender

Source: Wiktionary


GENDER

Gen"der, n. Etym: [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.)

Definition: 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.

Gen"der, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gendered; p. pr. & vb. n. Gendering.] Etym: [OF. gendrer, fr. L. generare. See Gender, n.]

Definition: To beget; to engender.

Gen"der, v. i.

Definition: To copulate; to breed. [R.] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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