首页英语词典gendergender英英释意

gender

英 ['dʒendə] 美['dʒɛndɚ]
  • n. 性;性别;性交
  • vt. 生(过去式gendered,过去分词gendered,现在分词gendering,第三人称单数genders,形容词genderless)

英英释意


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
2. the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles;
"she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"