gender

US /ˈdʒɛndɚ/

UK /'dʒendə(r)/

B1

noun

  • State of being male or female
  • The socially constructed roles, behaviours, expressions and identities of people.
  • A grammatical category of nouns and pronouns that is often related to sex or animacy.
  • A person's internal sense of being male, female, both, or neither, regardless of assigned sex at birth.
  • The state of being male or female
  • The socially constructed roles, behaviours, expressions and identities of girls, women, boys, men, and gender diverse people.

other

  • To assign a gender to; to consider something in terms of gender.