Gender

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1 English 1.1 Noun 1.1.1 Translations 1.2 Related terms

English

1. The collection of behavioural characteristics associated with one's sex; condition of being masculine or feminine.
2. (Grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech), such as masculine, feminine, neuter or common.
3. (euphemistically, or to avoid confusion with sex in the sense of sexual relations) Sex (male or female).

• Dutch: geslacht n, sekse f
• Finnish: sukupuoli (1, 3); suku (2)
• French: sexe m (1), genre m (2)
• Frisian: slachte n, geslacht n
• Greek: γένος
• Italian: sesso m, genere m
• Portuguese: sexo m
• Romanian: sex n (1), gen n (2)
• Spanish: género m