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Raregenders
The correct spelling is genders.
How to pronounce genders
noun
Say it like: Jen-der-s
The correct spelling is genders. Class; kind. For example: "The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors."
Usage Examples
“The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors.”
“His low voice allowed him to become a bass in the choir.”
“to cultivate the voice”
Meanings
noun
- 1.Class; kind.
- 2.(grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate.
- 3.(now sometimes proscribed) Sex (a category such as "male" or "female" into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).
- 4.Identification as a man, a woman or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. (Compare gender role, gender identity.)
- 5.(hardware) The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless/androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).
verb
- 1.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.To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
- 3.To engender.
- 4.To breed.
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