gender
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a 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
Types & categories
- grammatical category hypernym
- feminine hyponym
- masculine hyponym
- neuter hyponym
Sense 2 noun
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus
Types & categories
- physiological property hypernym
- masculinity hyponym
- bisexuality hyponym
- femaleness hyponym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | grammatical category |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | feminine |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | masculine |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | neuter |
| 2 | attribute | Related & opposite | male |
| 2 | attribute | Related & opposite | female |
| 2 | attribute | Related & opposite | androgynous |
| 2 | attribute | Related & opposite | sexual |
| 2 | attribute | Related & opposite | asexual |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sex |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sexual |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | physiological property |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | masculinity |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | bisexuality |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | femaleness |