OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 4399

gender

/ˈd͡ʒɛndə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
género • sexo
Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).
The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors.
the gene is activated in both genders
género
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.)
Gender is the sociocultural designation of biobehavioral and psychosocial qualities of the sexes; for example, woman (female), man (male), other(s) (e.g., berdaches²). Notions of g…
I am a cross-dresser by pleasure and inclination, a transgenderal person. To me for human beings to express themselves along gender lines is a wonderful and uniquely human phenomen…
género
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.
In Algonquian languages, given the full morphology of a noun, one can predict whether it belongs to the animate or inanimate gender […]
The pronominal declension [of English], on which we will focus most of our attention, inflects pronouns for person, number, case, gender, animacy, and reflexivity.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 4400

gender

/ˈd͡ʒɛndə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
generificar • generizar
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).
generificar • generizar
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 t…
Like every Western culture preceding it, Renaissance society was gendered to the advantage of the adult male, who served as the template for all of humankind, women and children ha…
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