gender

IPA: dʒˈɛndɝ

(obsolete) Class; kind.
(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.
(now sometimes proscribed) Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).
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.)
(grammar) Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”)
(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).
An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.

(sociology) 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.
(sociology) To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
(archaic) To engender.
(archaic or obsolete) To breed.

(LGBT, Internet slang, humorous) Evoking indescribable feelings regarding gender.

Examples of "gender" in Sentences

The gender of animals is immutable.
The gender of the name is masculine.
The gender of the photographed is female.
Dressing in clothing of the opposite gender.
It's the wrong gender and also condescending.
There is gender discrimination at the workplace.
There was no gender difference when evaluator was female.
There is a predilection for gender with most cases being in females.
There is no gender predilection, males and females are affected equally.
According to Slate, more parents are now using gender selection procedures to predetermine the sex of their child.