Usually means: Socially constructed roles and identities.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word gender:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. gender: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gender: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gender: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gender: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gender: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gender, gender: Wordnik
  7. gender: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gender: Wiktionary
  9. gender: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. gender: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Gender (creek), Gender (disambiguation), Gender (grammar), Gender (linguistics), Gender (role), Gender (stream), Gender: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Gender: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. gender: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. gender: Rhymezone
  15. gender: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. gender: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. gender: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. gender: Free Dictionary
  19. gender: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. gender: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. gender: Infoplease Dictionary
  22. gender: Dictionary.com
  23. gender: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  24. gender: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gender: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  4. Gender: Lexicon of Linguistics
  5. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Gender (sociology), gender: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gender (sociology), gender: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Gender (role), Gender (sociology), gender: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. GENDER: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

(Note: See gendered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete) Class; kind.
noun:  (now sometimes proscribed) Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).
noun:  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.)
noun:  (grammar) 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.
noun:  (grammar) Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”)
noun:  (hardware) 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).
verb:  (sociology) 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.
verb:  (sociology) To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
adjective:  (transgender slang) Evoking positive feelings regarding gender, like gender euphoria or gender envy.
verb:  (archaic) To engender.
verb:  (archaic or obsolete) To breed.
noun:  An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.

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