adj · noun · verb · 14 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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US:/ˈd͡ʒɛndɚ/
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Australian, New-Zealand:/ˈd͡ʒendə/
Scotland:/ˈd͡ʒɛndəɾ/
rhymes with -ɛndə(ɹ)
/ɡənˈdɛː(r)/
CMU ARPABET:JH EH1 N D ER0
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
adj
Meaning 1
Evoking positive feelings regarding gender, like gender euphoria or gender envy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: transgender slang
Examples
This outfit I'm wearing feels gender as hell. It's incredible that I get to look this hot.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
Class; kind.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
noun
Meaning 3
Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
4
noun
Meaning 4
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.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
Gender roles are indistinct among the young if the two sexes play together frequently.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
5
noun
Meaning 5
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: voice
Antonyms: none provided
7
noun
Meaning 7
The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless or androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: hardware
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
8
noun
Meaning 8
An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
9
verb
Meaning 9
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun.
Borrowed from Indonesian gender.
Etymology tree Latin generāreder. Middle French gendrerder. Middle English gendren English gender Inherited from Middle English gendren, from Middle French gendrer, from Latin generāre.
Across languages
Translations
314 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Arabic:
جِنْس
(jins)
— division, class, kind
Catalan:
gènere
— division, class, kind
Esperanto:
genro
— division, class, kind
Finnish:
suku
— division, class, kind
French:
genre
— division, class, kind
German:
Geschlecht
— division, class, kind
Greek:
είδος
(eídos)
— division, class, kind
Icelandic:
kyn
— division, class, kind
Italian:
genere
— division, class, kind
Macedonian:
род
(rod)
— division, class, kind
Malagasy:
karazana
— division, class, kind
Norman:
genre
— division, class, kind
Portuguese:
género
— division, class, kind
Portuguese:
gênero
— division, class, kind
Scottish Gaelic:
seòrsa
— division, class, kind
Scottish Gaelic:
gnè
— division, class, kind
Afrikaans:
geslag
— biological sex
Albanian:
gjini
— biological sex
Amharic:
ፆታ
(ṣ́ota)
— biological sex
Arabic:
جِنْس
(jins)
— biological sex
Armenian:
սեռ
(seṙ)
— biological sex
Asturian:
sexu
— biological sex
Azerbaijani:
cins
— biological sex
Belarusian:
пол
(pol)
— biological sex
Belarusian:
плоць
(plocʹ)
— biological sex
Bengali:
লিঙ্গ
(liṅgo)
— biological sex
Bulgarian:
пол
(pol)
— biological sex
Burmese:
လိင်
(ling)
— biological sex
Catalan:
sexe
— biological sex
Chinese Cantonese:
性別 /性别
— biological sex
Eastern Min Chinese:
性別 /性别
(séng-biék)
— biological sex
Hakka Chinese:
性別 /性别
(sin-phe̍t)
— biological sex
Chinese:
性別 /性别
(zh-min-nan)
— biological sex
Chinese Mandarin:
性別 /性别
(xìngbié)
— biological sex
Wu Chinese:
性別 /性别
(5shin-biq)
— biological sex
Czech:
pohlaví
— biological sex
Danish:
køn
— biological sex
Dutch:
geslacht
— biological sex
Dutch:
sekse
— biological sex
Estonian:
sugu
— biological sex
Faroese:
kyn
— biological sex
Finnish:
sukupuoli
— biological sex
French:
sexe
— biological sex
West-Frisian:
slachte
— biological sex
West-Frisian:
geslacht
— biological sex
Galician:
sexo
— biological sex
Georgian:
სქესი
(skesi)
— biological sex
German:
Geschlecht
— biological sex
Greek:
φύλο
(fýlo)
— biological sex
Greenlandic:
suiaassuseq
— biological sex
Hawaiian:
keka
— biological sex
Hebrew:
מִין
(min)
— biological sex
Hindi:
लिंग
(liṅg)
— biological sex
Hungarian:
nem
— biological sex
Hungarian:
nemi hovatartozás
— biological sex
Icelandic:
kyn
— biological sex
Ido:
sexuo
— biological sex
Indonesian:
jenis
— biological sex
Indonesian:
jenis kelamin
— biological sex
Irish:
gnéas
— biological sex
Italian:
sesso
— biological sex
Japanese:
性
(sei)
— biological sex
Japanese:
性別
(seibetsu)
— biological sex
Kazakh:
жыныс
(jynys)
— biological sex
Khmer:
ជាតិលិង្គ
(ciətelɨng)
— biological sex
Khmer:
លិង្គ
(lɨng)
— biological sex
Korean:
성
(seong)
— biological sex
Korean:
성별
(seongbyeol)
— biological sex
Northern Kurdish:
zayend
— biological sex
Northern Kurdish:
zawzê
— biological sex
Kyrgyz:
жыныс
(jınıs)
— biological sex
Lao:
ລິງ
(ling)
— biological sex
Lao:
ເພດ
(phēt)
— biological sex
Latin:
genus
— biological sex
Latin:
sexus
— biological sex
Latvian:
dzimte
— biological sex
Latvian:
dzimums
— biological sex
Lithuanian:
lytis
— biological sex
Luxembourgish:
Geschlecht
— biological sex
Macedonian:
пол
(pol)
— biological sex
Malagasy:
lahi-vavy
— biological sex
Malagasy:
lahy vavy
— biological sex
Malagasy:
lahivavy
— biological sex
Malay:
jantina
— biological sex
Maltese:
sess
— biological sex
Marathi:
लिंग
(liṅga)
— biological sex
Mongolian:
хүйс
(xüjs)
— biological sex
Mongolian:
ᠬᠦᠢᠰᠦ
(küisü)
— biological sex
Norwegian Bokmål:
kjønn
— biological sex
Norwegian Nynorsk:
kjønn
— biological sex
Old English:
hād
— biological sex
Pannonian Rusyn:
пол
(pol)
— biological sex
Pashto:
جنس
(jens)
— biological sex
Iranian Persian:
جِنْس
(jens)
— biological sex
Iranian Persian:
جِنْسِیَت
(jensiyat)
— biological sex
Polish:
płeć
— biological sex
Portuguese:
género
— biological sex
Portuguese:
gênero
— biological sex
Portuguese:
sexo
— biological sex
Romanian:
gen
— biological sex
Romanian:
sex
— biological sex
Russian:
пол
(pol)
— biological sex
Inari-Sami:
suhâpeeli
— biological sex
Northern Sami:
sohkabealli
— biological sex
Skolt-Sami:
sooǥǥbieʹll
— biological sex
Scottish Gaelic:
gnè
— biological sex
Serbo-Croatian:
по̑л
— biological sex
Serbo-Croatian:
спо̑л
— biological sex
Serbo-Croatian:
pȏl
— biological sex
Serbo-Croatian:
spȏl
— biological sex
Slovak:
pohlavie
— biological sex
Slovene:
spol
— biological sex
Spanish:
sexo
— biological sex
Spanish:
género
— biological sex
Swahili:
jinsia
— biological sex
Swedish:
kön
— biological sex
Tagalog:
kasarian
— biological sex
Tajik:
ҷинс
(jins)
— biological sex
Tajik:
ҷинсият
(jinsiyat)
— biological sex
Tamil:
பால்
(pāl)
— biological sex
Tatar:
җенес
(cenes)
— biological sex
Thai:
เพศ
(pêet)
— biological sex
Thai:
ลิงค์
(ling)
— biological sex
Turkish:
cinsiyet
— biological sex
Turkish:
cins
— biological sex
Turkmen:
jyns
— biological sex
Turkmen:
pol
— biological sex
Ukrainian:
стать
(statʹ)
— biological sex
Urdu:
جِنْس
(jins)
— biological sex
Urdu:
لِن٘گ
(liṅg)
— biological sex
Uyghur:
جىنس
(jins)
— biological sex
Uzbek:
jins
— biological sex
Vietnamese:
giới tính
— biological sex
Walloon:
seke
— biological sex
Yiddish:
מין
(min)
— biological sex
Yiddish:
געשלעכט
(geshlekht)
— biological sex
Afrikaans:
geslag
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Arabic:
جِندر
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Arabic:
هَوِيَّة جِنْسِيَّة
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Arabic:
هَوِيَّة جِنْدريّة
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Arabic:
جِنْس
(jins)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Armenian:
սեռ
(seṙ)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Armenian:
գենդեր
(gender)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Belarusian:
пол
(pol)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Belarusian:
плоць
(plocʹ)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Belarusian:
ге́ндар
(hjéndar)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Belarusian:
ге́ндэр
(hjénder)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Bulgarian:
дже́ндър
(džéndǎr)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Chinese Mandarin:
社會性別 /社会性别
(shèhuì xìngbié)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Corsican:
ginere
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Corsican:
ghjinere
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Czech:
gender
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Dutch:
gender
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Esperanto:
sekso
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Esperanto:
genro
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Finnish:
sosiaalinen sukupuoli
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
French:
genre
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Georgian:
გენდერი
(genderi)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
German:
Gender
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
German:
soziales Geschlecht
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
German:
Geschlecht
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Greenlandic:
suiaassuseq
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Hawaiian:
keka
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Hebrew:
מִגְדָּר
(migdár)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Hungarian:
társadalmi nem
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Hungarian:
gender
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Hungarian:
dzsender
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Hungarian:
nemület
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Irish:
inscne
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Italian:
genere
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Japanese:
ジェンダー
(jendā)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Japanese:
性同一性
(sei dōitsusei)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Japanese:
性
(sei)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Korean:
젠더
(jendeo)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Korean:
성
(seong)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Latin:
genus
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Norman:
genre
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Polish:
gender
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Portuguese:
género
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Portuguese:
gênero
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Russian:
пол
(pol)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Russian:
ге́ндер
(géndɛr)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Scottish Gaelic:
gnè
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Scottish Gaelic:
seòrsa
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Serbo-Croatian:
ро̑д
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Serbo-Croatian:
џендер
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Serbo-Croatian:
rȏd
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Serbo-Croatian:
džender
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Slovak:
rod
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Slovak:
gender
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Spanish:
género
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Swedish:
genus
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Swedish:
könsroll
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Tamil:
பாலினம்
(pāliṉam)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Ukrainian:
стать
(statʹ)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Ukrainian:
ге́ндер
(hénder)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Ukrainian:
ґе́ндер
(génder)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Yiddish:
דזשענדער
(dzhender)
— identification as a man, a woman, or something else
Afrikaans:
geslag
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Albanian:
gjini
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Amharic:
ጾታ
(ṣota)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Arabic:
جِنْس
(jins)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Armenian:
սեռ
(seṙ)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Assamese:
লিঙ্গ
(liṅgo)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Asturian:
xéneru
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Azerbaijani:
cins
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Belarusian:
род
(rod)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Bengali:
লিঙ্গ
(liṅgo)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Breton:
reizh
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Bulgarian:
род
(rod)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Burmese:
လိင်
(ling)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Catalan:
gènere
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Chechen:
род
(rod)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Chinese Cantonese:
性別 /性别
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Eastern Min Chinese:
性別 /性别
(séng-biék)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Hakka Chinese:
性別 /性别
(sin-phe̍t)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Chinese:
性別 /性别
(zh-min-nan)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Chinese Mandarin:
性別 /性别
(xìngbié)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Wu Chinese:
性別 /性别
(5shin-biq)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Czech:
rod
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Danish:
køn
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Dutch:
geslacht
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Dutch:
genus
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Dutch:
woordgeslacht
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Esperanto:
genro
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Estonian:
sugu
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Faroese:
kyn
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Finnish:
suku
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
French:
genre
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Galician:
xénero
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Georgian:
სქესი
(skesi)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Georgian:
გენდერი
(genderi)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
German:
Geschlecht
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
German:
Genus
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Greek:
γένος
(génos)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Ancient Greek:
γένος
(génos)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Greenlandic:
kønni
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Gujarati:
લિંગ
(liṅg)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Hebrew:
מִין
(min)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Hindi:
लिंग
(liṅg)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Hungarian:
nem
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Hungarian:
nyelvtani nem
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Icelandic:
kyn
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Ido:
genro
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Indonesian:
jenis
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Interlingua:
genere
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Irish:
inscne
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Italian:
genere
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Japanese:
性
(sei)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Kazakh:
род
(rod)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Kazakh:
тек
(tek)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Kazakh:
жыныс
(jynys)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Khmer:
លិង្គ
(lɨng)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Korean:
성
(seong)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Kyrgyz:
род
(rod)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Kyrgyz:
жыныс
(jınıs)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Lao:
ລິງ
(ling)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Latin:
genus
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Latvian:
dzimte
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Lithuanian:
lytis
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Macedonian:
род
(rod)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Malay:
jenis
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Maltese:
sess
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Marathi:
लिंग
(liṅga)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Mongolian:
хүйс
(xüjs)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Mongolian:
ᠬᠦᠢᠰᠦ
(küisü)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Nepali:
लैङ्गिकता
(laiṅgikatā)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Newar:
जाः
(jā:)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Norman:
genre
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Norwegian Bokmål:
kjønn
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Occitan:
genre
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Odia:
ଲିଙ୍ଗ
(liṅga)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Old English:
cynn
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Pannonian Rusyn:
род
(rod)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Pashto:
جنس
(jens)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Iranian Persian:
جِنْس
(jens)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Polish:
rodzaj
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Portuguese:
género
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Portuguese:
gênero
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Romanian:
gen
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Russian:
род
(rod)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Sanskrit:
लिंग
(liṅga)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Scottish Gaelic:
gnè
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Serbo-Croatian:
ро̑д
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Serbo-Croatian:
rȏd
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Slovak:
rod
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Slovene:
spol
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Spanish:
género
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Swedish:
genus
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Tajik:
ҷинс
(jins)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Tamil:
பால்
(pāl)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Tatar:
җенес
(cenes)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Thai:
ลิงค์
(ling)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Turkish:
cins
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Turkish:
cinsiyet
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Turkish:
eşey
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Turkmen:
rod
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Turkmen:
jyns
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Ukrainian:
рід
(rid)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Urdu:
جِنْس
(jins)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Urdu:
لِن٘گ
(liṅg)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Uyghur:
جىنس
(jins)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Uzbek:
rod
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Uzbek:
jins
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Vietnamese:
giống
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Volapük:
gen
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Walloon:
djinre
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Welsh:
cenedl
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
Yiddish:
מין
(min)
— grammar: division of nouns and pronouns
French:
genrer
— to perceive or address as a specific gender
Spanish:
generizar
— to perceive or address as a specific gender
Spanish:
generificar
— to perceive or address as a specific gender
Spanish:
generizar
— to assign a specific gender
Spanish:
generificar
— to assign a specific gender
