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

Another food trend that comes dipped in gender is the so-called "cupcake revolution".
The participants were soon running roughshod over him, proving the term gender activist was a misnomer.
Some words, then, have a gender quite apart from sex or real gender, and this is called «grammatical gender».
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According to wikipedia.com; The word gender comes from the Middle English gendre, a loanword from Norman-conquest-era Middle French.
Abandoning the term "gender equality" takes something away from the internationally used terminology, and the replacement is more cumbersome and awkward, he said in the e-mail.
To place the term gender in the terms insures it will always be noticed, as opposed to just being two folks committed for life in a very special relationship where gender is no ones business but the couples.
Their first tack was the attempt to separate sex from gender, that is, the biological fact of the two human sexes from their social and cultural expressions, which they term gender, and which are seen as totally socially constructed and in no way grounded in nature.