grammatical gender

noun

The grammatically prescribed gender of a noun, which does not necessarily correspond with the referent’s attributes such as biological sex.

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Meanings

noungrammatical gender (countable and uncountable, plural grammatical genders)

plural grammatical genders

  1. countableuncountablegrammarThe grammatically prescribed gender of a noun, which does not necessarily correspond with the referent’s attributes such as biological sex.

    Synonyms: gender

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe grammatically prescribed gender of a noun, which does not necessarily correspond with the referent’s attributes such as biological sex.

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gender

More synonyms by meaning

nouna 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

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gender
Broader
grammatical categorysyntactic category
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gender

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 性
  • 性 (xìng)gender as prescribed by grammar
French genre grammatical
  • genre grammaticalgender as prescribed by grammar
German Genus, grammatisches Geschlecht
  • Genusgender as prescribed by grammar
  • grammatisches Geschlechtgender as prescribed by grammar
Hungarian grammatikai nem
  • grammatikai nemgender as prescribed by grammar
Japanese 性
  • 性 (sei)gender as prescribed by grammar
Polish rodzaj gramatyczny
  • rodzaj gramatycznygender as prescribed by grammar
Portuguese género gramatical, gênero gramatical
  • género gramaticalgender as prescribed by grammar
  • gênero gramaticalgender as prescribed by grammar
Romanian gen, gen gramatical
  • gengender as prescribed by grammar
  • gen gramaticalgender as prescribed by grammar
Tagalog kasariang pambalarila
  • kasariang pambalarilagender as prescribed by grammar
Tamil பால்
  • பால் (pāl)gender as prescribed by grammar
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“grammatical gender.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grammatical%20gender. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “grammatical gender,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grammatical%20gender.

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