Noun: grammatical gender gru'ma-ti-kul 'jen-du(r)
- 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";
- gender
Derived forms: grammatical genders
Type of: grammatical category, syntactic category
Encyclopedia: Grammatical gender