gender
英 ['d?end?]
美['d??nd?]
- n. 性;性別;性交
- vt. 生(過去式gendered,過去分詞gendered,現(xiàn)在分詞gendering,第三人稱單數(shù)genders,形容詞genderless)
英英釋意
- 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"