gender
英 ['d?end?]
美['d??nd?]
- n. 性；性別；性交
- vt. 生（過(guò)去式gendered，過(guò)去分詞gendered，現(xiàn)在分詞gendering，第三人稱(chēng)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"