gender

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/ˈd͡ʒɛndə/    /ˈd͡ʒɛndɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Class; kind. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — […]plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many[…]
  2. An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.
  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). countable,proscribed,sometimes,uncountable
    — the gene is activated in both genders
  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.) countable,uncountable
    — Gender roles are indistinct among the young if the two sexes play together frequently.
  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. countable,uncountable
    — The pronominal declension [of English], on which we will focus most of our attention, inflects pronouns for person, number, case, gender, animacy, and reflexivity.
  6. Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”). countable,uncountable
    — 143. […] We have now to speak of the following eight particulars relating to verbs: Gender or Sort, Person, Number, Time, Mode, Participle, Gerund, and Supine. [...] 1st.--Of the Gender. 144. Gender means the same as sort or kind. There are four principal Sorts of Verbs; namely, Active verbs, Passive verbs, Neuter verbs, and Impersonal verbs.
  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). countable,uncountable
    — Connectors are identified by gender. When copper pins are exposed in the connector, its gender is male.
动词 v.
  1. 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.
    — In an interview, he even noted that he "dressed, acted and thought like a man" for years, but his coworkers continued to gender him as female (Shaver 1995, 2).
  2. To engender. archaic
    — […] Abraham had two ſonnes, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman, was borne after the fleſh: but hee of the freewoman, was by promiſe. Which things are an Allegorie; for theſe are the two Couenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. […] But Jeruſalem which is aboue is free, which is the mother of vs all.
  3. To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
    — At the same time, however, the convictions they held about how a woman or man might write led them to interpret their findings in a rather androcentric fashion, and to gender the text accordingly.
  4. To breed. archaic,obsolete
    — Yee ſhall keepe my Statutes: Thou ſhalt not let thy cattel gender with a diuerſe kinde: Thou ſhalt not ſowe thy field with mingled ſeed: Neither ſhall a garment mingled of linnen and woollen come vpon thee.
形容词 adj.
  1. Evoking positive feelings regarding gender, like gender euphoria or gender envy.
    — This outfit I'm wearing feels gender as hell. It's incredible that I get to look this hot.

词形变化

genders plural g. alternative,abbreviation genders present,singular,third-person gendering participle,present gendered participle,past gendered past g. alternative,abbreviation more gender comparative most gender superlative g. alternative,abbreviation genders present,singular,third-person gendering participle,present gendered participle,past gendered past g. alternative,abbreviation genders plural gendèr alternative g. alternative,abbreviation

词汇关系

衍生词
agender all-gender ambigender anti-gender antigender antigenderism antigenderist autigender bigender biogender catgender cisgender cis-gender cogender common gender crossgender demigender fourth gender genderable gender-affected gender affirmation surgery gender-affirming gender-affirming surgery genderal gender asterisk gender baiting gender-baiting gender-balanced genderbend gender-bender gender bender genderbending gender binary gender-binary gender-blind gender blind genderbread person gender budgeting gender card gender changer gendercide gender cleavage gender confirmation surgery gender continuum gender-critical feminism gender-critical feminist gender critical gender-critical gender diverse gender dysphoria gender-dysphoric gendered gender envy genderer gender euphoria gender-expansive gender expression genderfae gender-flip genderfluid gender-fluid gender fluidity genderflux gender-free genderfuck gender gap gender hoard genderic gender identity gender identity disorder GID gender identity syndrome gender ideology gender-inclusive gender inclusivity gender incongruence genderisation genderism genderist genderization genderize genderland genderlect genderless genderlike genderly gender mainstreaming gender mender gender minority gender neutral gender-neutral gender neutrality gender-neutrality gender-neutralize gender-neutrally gender nonconforming gender-nonconforming gender non-conforming gender nonconformity genderology gender panembung genderphobia genderplay gender presentation genderpunk genderquake genderqueer GQ gender realignment surgery gender reallocation surgery gender reassignment gender reassignment surgery gender recognition gender recognition certificate gender reveal gender role gender-role gender-safe genderscape gendersex genderspeak genderspecial gender-specific gender-specifically gender spectrum gender star gender studies genderswap gender swap genderswapping gender-swapping gender swaps gender theory gender transition gendertrash gender-vague gender vague gendervague gender-variant genderwise gendie grammatical gender heterogender homogender hypergender intergender intragender ipso gender legal gender like-gendered metagender meta-gender monogender multigender natural gender neurogender neuter gender nongender omnigender pangender pan-gender play the gender card polygender postgender pregender psychogender rapid onset gender dysphoria rapid-onset gender dysphoria same-gender-loving same gender loving same-gender marriage same gender same-gender sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts subgender third gender transgender TG transgendercide trans someone's gender trigender xenogender xgender

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From Middle English gendren, genderen, from Middle French gendrer, from Latin generāre.
词源 3
Borrowed from Indonesian gender, from Javanese ꦒꦼꦤ꧀ꦢꦺꦂ (gendèr), from Old Javanese gĕnder.
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