1. A grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
   "In Spanish, 'la mesa' (the table) has feminine grammatical gender";
   - grammatical gender
    
2. The properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
   "she didn't want to know the gender of the foetus";
   - sex, sexuality

1. Assign or attribute a gender to
   "Some parents choose not to gender their children's toys"

Derived forms: gendered, gendering, genders

See also: androgynous, asexual, female, male, nonsexual, sexual

Type of: grammatical category, physiological property, syntactic category

Encyclopedia: Gender, Work & Organization