Gender

Synonyms for gender:

communication (noun)

grammatical gender.

gender (noun)

man, gender identity disorder, Gendered, gender-specific, grammatical gender, the opposite sex, androgynous, layperson.

grammatical rules applying to nouns that connote sex or animateness (noun)

feminine, gender-specific, masculine.

Sense 1

macho, effeminateness, manful, effeminacy, epicene, distaff, sissyish, sissified, womanliness, feminineness, muliebrity, womankind, womenfolk, sissiness, femaleness, womanishness.

Sense 2

mannish, virile, unmanliness, womanish, femininity, womanly, effeminate, manly.

Sense 3

male, masculine, unmanly, female, manlike, womanhood, feminine.

gender

transsexual, man, tranny, Gendered, unisex, gender-specific, the opposite sex, sexless, androgynous, transgender, gender identity disorder, layperson.

syntax

grammar.

Other synonyms and related words:

transsexual, womanly, effeminateness, unisex, sexless, gender-specific, man, unmanliness, womankind, feminineness, manly, epicene, muliebrity, female, Gendered, femaleness, layperson, virile, effeminate, masculine, effeminacy, male, feminine, womenfolk, femininity, unmanly, transgender, manful.

Usage examples for gender:

• Why he applied the feminine gender to the machine was another of those vagaries of which inventors are always possessed. - "Watch Yourself Go By", Al. G. Field.
• But the poem was written a long time ago, before non- specific gender language was in vogue. - "Abducted to Oz", Bob Evans and Chris Dulabone.
• When there is no real gender, nouns are called masculine or feminine according to their terminations. - "Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)", C. A. Toledano.