From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun. Displaced native Old English hād (“sex, gender”).
Meanings
(qualifier:transgender slang) Evoking positive feelings regarding gender, like gender euphoria or gender envy.
This outfit I'm wearing feels gender as hell. It's incredible that I get to look this hot.
Whenever I work triceps at the gym I feel most Gender (tm). 2024 May 31, @BurnJonJonBurn, Twitter, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2024:
Is there anything surprising that makes you feel gender/that you are envious of? ¶ oooh. i recently discovered the big gender mood of shirts cropped to precisely the right length, and it is also surprisingly gender when my friends call me “doc” instead of my very binarily gendered name 2024 August 23, official-linguistics-post, “Archived copy”, in Tumblr (blog), archived from the original on 30 Aug 2024:
miles [Morales] is so gender and the embodiment of a little guy I just want to give him a hug 2021 July 6, @chromaticamber, Twitter, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2024:
ombras "whats good?" and "peace 😈" voicelines are so gender and i love her 2023 March 13, @FTMLUCIO, Twitter, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2024:
you draw her so gender, thank you i'm die forever 2023 December 31, @pyrotato, Twitter, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2024:
Seth Rogan eating the whole chicken drumstick off the bone and then asking how he’s still single is gender af 2021 July 6, @godrustler, Twitter, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2024:
From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun. Displaced native Old English hād (“sex, gender”).
Meanings
(countable, obsolete, uncountable) Class; kind.
[…]plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many[…] c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
(countable, uncountable) 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 gene is activated in both genders
Although asari have one gender, they are not asexual. An asari provides two copies of her own genes to her offspring. The second set is altered in a unique process called melding.
During melding, an asari consciously attunes her nervous system to her partner's, sending and receiving electrical impulses directly through the skin. The partner can be another asari, or an alien of either gender. Effectively, the asari and her partner briefly become one unified nervous system. 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Asari: Biology Codex entry:
Gender does not necessarily have primacy in this respect. Economic class and ethnic differentiation can also be important relational hierarchies, […]. 2004, Wenona Mary Giles, Jennifer Hyndman, Sites of violence: gender and conflict zones, page 28:
To say truth, I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex; and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them […] . 1723, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter, 7 December
The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors.
In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse […] that I was destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on a Friday night. 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
(countable, uncountable) 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.)
Intersex people too challenge the idea that physical sex, not merely gender, is binary – a person must be definitively either one sex or the other. 2012, Elizabeth Reis, American Sexual Histories, page 5:
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 phenomena. 1979 January 8, Merissa Sherrill Lynn, “Statement”, in Newsletter, number 7, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
The State Department and current Secretary of State Marco Rubio are expressly directed under the injunction to “to process and issue passports [...] consistent with the State Department’s policy as of January 19, 2025,” and to allow passport applicants to self-declare their gender even if that information is “different from the sex assigned to those individuals under the [Trump] Passport Policy.” 2025 June 18, Samantha Riedel, “In Trans Legal Victory, Federal Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Denying Passport Gender Changes”, in Them:
One wife I met at a conference was in a hurry for her husband to have the genital surgery because she worried about his gender and genitals not matching if he were in a car accident, […] 2007, Helen Boyd, She's Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband, →ISBN, page 93:
From simply "adding women" into the analysis of work and seeing "gender" as another word for "sex," we have moved to the understanding that gender is a social process and a social construction of sexual differences. It is as much an independent variable as a dependent variable, shaped by social and historical processes. Beyond bringing women back into analyses of the workplace and the labor process, we now have to analyze how work is gendered and gendering: gender as a means of control and an organizing principle for class relations at the point of production, and workplace as a site for gender construction, formation, and reproduction. In the latest development, seeing gender as a power process also directs our attention toward the politics of identity, or the formation and claiming of collective subjectivities. 1998, Ching Kwan Lee, Gender and the South China Miracle, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 23:
In President Trump’s America, there may be only two genders, but our military adventures can identify however they please. 2026 March 22, Phil Klay, “Trump Has Made a Fundamental Miscalculation about Iran”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
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 gender are culturally specific and depend on the ways in which cultures define and differentiate human (and other) potentials and possibilities. While many people in Western society may think first of heterosexual women and men when the word "gender" is mentioned, there are more gender possibilities than just those two. 1989, Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Christine Roberts, “Sex, Sexuality, Gender, and Gender Variance”, in Sandra Morgen, editor, Gender and Anthropology: Critical Reviews for Research and Teaching, Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 439:
Thomas Beatie, a transgendered man, announced in an April 2008 issue of the gay and lesbian news magazine, The Advocate, that he was pregnant. […] Moreover, he saw no conflict between his gender and his pregnancy. 2010, Eve Shapiro, Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age, →ISBN:
(countable, uncountable) 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.
Pronouns, for instance, are structures that organise information about continuous referents. This information is typically categorised in Romani according to Person, Number, Gender, Animacy, Case, and Discreteness. 2006, Viktor Elšik, Yaron Matras, Markedness and Language Change: The Romani Sample, →ISBN, page 29:
In Algonquian languages, given the full morphology of a noun, one can predict whether it belongs to the animate or inanimate gender […] 1991, Greville G. Corbett, Gender, →ISBN, pages 22 and 65:
The pronominal declension [of English], on which we will focus most of our attention, inflects pronouns for person, number, case, gender, animacy, and reflexivity. 1990, Edwin L. Battistella, Markedness: The Evaluative Superstructure of Language, →ISBN, page 73:
The common gender might well reflect an IE animate gender. 2015, Anna Giacalone Ramat, Paolo Ramat, The Indo-European Languages, →ISBN, page 191:
(countable, uncountable) Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”).
Many of the words quoted are purely reflexive, others passive or deponent. Such words as óttask, œðrask, dásk, iðrask, reiðask are deponent, though they originally may have been reflexive, but the active gender is here quite obsolete. 1866, Guðbrandr Vigfusson, “Some remarks upon the Use of the Reflexive Pronoun in Icelandic”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, page 87:
The general distinction is between three 'genders' out of the five genders of the Latin tradition: active gender, passive gender, neuter gender. 2007, Bernard Colombat, “Some Problems in Transferring the Latin Model to the First French Grammars: Verbal voice, impersonal verbs and the -rais form”, in Eduardo Guimarães, Diana Luz Pessoa de Barros, editors, Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 110: History of Linguistics 2002, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 6:
143. […] We have now to speak of the following eight particulars relating to verbs: Gender or Sort, Person, Number, Time, Mode, Participle, Gerund, and Supine. [...]
1st.--Of the Gender.
144. Gender means the same as sort or kind. There are four principal Sorts of Verbs; namely, Active verbs, Passive verbs, Neuter verbs, and Impersonal verbs. 1835, James Paul Cobbett, A Latin Grammar for the Use of English Boys: Being an Explanation of the Rudiments of the Latin Language, London, page 111:
(countable, qualifier:hardware, uncountable) 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).
Connectors are identified by gender. When copper pins are exposed in the connector, its gender is male. 2015, Ron Carswell, Shen Jiang, Mary Ellen Hardee, Guide to Parallel Operating Systems with Windows 10 and Linux, page 10:
tg ҷинсият (biological sex) · nl geslacht (biological sex) · ka გენდერი (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · co ghjinere (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · ps جنس (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · fa-ira جِنْس (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ga gnéas (biological sex) · tt җенес (biological sex) · it genere (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ko 성 (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ar هَوِيَّة جِنْسِيَّة (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · ta பால் (biological sex) · uk ге́ндер (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · fy slachte (biological sex) · ky род (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ro gen (biological sex) · cdo 性別 /性别 (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · af geslag (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · mk род (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · kl suiaassuseq (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · cmn 性別 /性别 (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ia genere (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · de Gender (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · hy սեռ (biological sex) · pt género (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · fo kyn (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · uz jins (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · pt sexo (biological sex) · be ге́ндэр (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · am ፆታ (biological sex) · uz jins (biological sex) · bn লিঙ্গ (biological sex) · ja 性 (biological sex) · ca sexe (biological sex) · fo kyn (biological sex) · ms jantina (biological sex) · hu dzsender (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · as লিঙ্গ (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · yue 性別 /性别 (biological sex) · it genere (division, class, kind) · yi געשלעכט (biological sex) · nn kjønn (biological sex) · km លិង្គ (biological sex) · be плоць (biological sex) · bg род (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · gd gnè (biological sex) · mn ᠬᠦᠢᠰᠦ (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · da køn (biological sex) · fr genre (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · ang cynn (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · rsk род (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · sk pohlavie (biological sex) · wa djinre (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ar هَوِيَّة جِنْدريّة (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · be плоць (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · gl sexo (biological sex) · haw keka (biological sex) · ja 性 (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · az cins (biological sex) · be род (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ar جِنْس (division, class, kind) · mg lahy vavy (biological sex) · et sugu (biological sex) · kk тек (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · gd gnè (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · lv dzimums (biological sex) · pl gender (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · az cins (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · tr cins (biological sex) · io genro (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ko 성 (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · fa-ira جِنْس (biological sex) · sk gender (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · nl geslacht (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ang hād (biological sex) · nan-hbl 性別 /性别 (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · pl płeć (biological sex) · wa seke (biological sex) · br reizh (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · hu nemület (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · new जाः (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ar جِنْس (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · eo genro (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ro sex (biological sex) · mt sess (biological sex) · hu nemi hovatartozás (biological sex) · fi sukupuoli (biological sex) · uk стать (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · hi लिंग (biological sex) · grc γένος (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · bn লিঙ্গ (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · kk жыныс (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · gd gnè (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · lt lytis (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · de Genus (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · kk род (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · cs gender (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · tk pol (biological sex) · ka გენდერი (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · pt gênero (division, class, kind) · ms jenis (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · tt җенес (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ga inscne (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · se sohkabealli (biological sex) · be ге́ндар (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · ur لِن٘گ (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ky жыныс (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ca gènere (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ru пол (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · la genus (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · sv kön (biological sex) · hy սեռ (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · mn хүйс (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · yi מין (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ne लैङ्गिकता (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · sh rȏd (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · nl gender (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · tr cinsiyet (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ja ジェンダー (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · be пол (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · hy սեռ (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ast xéneru (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · co ginere (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · hu nyelvtani nem (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · mn хүйс (biological sex) · ka სქესი (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ast sexu (biological sex) · nrf genre (division, class, kind) · de Geschlecht (division, class, kind) · bg пол (biological sex) · cdo 性別 /性别 (biological sex) · rsk пол (biological sex) · gd gnè (division, class, kind) · wuu 性別 /性别 (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · my လိင် (biological sex) · yue 性別 /性别 (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · gd seòrsa (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · mg karazana (division, class, kind) · sk rod (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · hu nem (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · tk rod (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · pt género (division, class, kind) · mg lahi-vavy (biological sex) · nl sekse (biological sex) · ro gen (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · tr cinsiyet (biological sex) · eo genro (division, class, kind) · ta பால் (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ga inscne (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · pt gênero (biological sex) · id jenis (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · et sugu (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ur جِنْس (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · pt género (biological sex) · sh spȏl (biological sex) · tr cins (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · lv dzimte (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · gl xénero (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ur جِنْس (biological sex) · or ଲିଙ୍ଗ (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · pl rodzaj (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · uk стать (biological sex) · sk rod (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · sl spol (biological sex) · tl kasarian (biological sex) · sh спо̑л (biological sex) · gd seòrsa (division, class, kind) · fi suku (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · is kyn (biological sex) · sv genus (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · am ጾታ (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · km លិង្គ (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · hak 性別 /性别 (biological sex) · sh џендер (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · hy գենդեր (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · nb kjønn (biological sex) · de Geschlecht (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · la genus (biological sex) · mn ᠬᠦᠢᠰᠦ (biological sex) · mr लिंग (biological sex) · la genus (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · sh ро̑д (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ko 성 (biological sex) · io sexuo (biological sex) · sh ро̑д (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · it sesso (biological sex) · la sexus (biological sex) · sv könsroll (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · da køn (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · el φύλο (biological sex) · fi suku (division, class, kind) · ta பாலினம் (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · sq gjini (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · sh džender (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · it genere (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · nb kjønn (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · uk рід (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · cmn 性別 /性别 (biological sex) · lt lytis (biological sex) · ru род (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · pt género (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · sh pȏl (biological sex) · eo sekso (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · km ជាតិលិង្គ (biological sex) · gu લિંગ (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · fr sexe (biological sex) · cy cenedl (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · af geslag (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · nrf genre (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · hu nem (biological sex) · vo gen (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · oc genre (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · lb Geschlecht (biological sex) · th เพศ (biological sex) · cs pohlaví (biological sex) · sa लिंग (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · fy geslacht (biological sex) · bg дже́ндър (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · he מִגְדָּר (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · lo ລິງ (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · smn suhâpeeli (biological sex) · tk jyns (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · es género (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · fr genre (division, class, kind) · ja 性同一性 (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · sl spol (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · de soziales Geschlecht (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · tk jyns (biological sex) · el είδος (division, class, kind) · yi מין (biological sex) · cmn 社會性別 /社会性别 (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · ur لِن٘گ (biological sex) · sh rȏd (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · he מִין (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · vi giới tính (biological sex) · is kyn (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · is kyn (division, class, kind) · ar جِندر (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · sv genus (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · nl woordgeslacht (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · fa-ira جِنْسِیَت (biological sex) · ug جىنس (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ar جِنْس (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · nl genus (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · kl kønni (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ps جنس (biological sex) · pt gênero (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · de Geschlecht (biological sex) · kmr zawzê (biological sex) · hak 性別 /性别 (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ru ге́ндер (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · fr genre (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ug جىنس (biological sex) · vi giống (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · my လိင် (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · es género (biological sex) · ce род (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · nrf genre (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · haw keka (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · tr eşey (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · mk род (division, class, kind) · tg ҷинс (biological sex) · th ลิงค์ (biological sex) · kk жыныс (biological sex) · sq gjini (biological sex) · kl suiaassuseq (biological sex) · hu gender (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · sw jinsia (biological sex) · ru пол (biological sex) · mr लिंग (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · he מִין (biological sex) · uz rod (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · es género (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · wuu 性別 /性别 (biological sex) · be пол (biological sex) · ja 性別 (biological sex) · hi लिंग (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ca gènere (division, class, kind) · mg lahivavy (biological sex) · eo genro (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · de Geschlecht (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · cs rod (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · sms sooǥǥbieʹll (biological sex) · ko 젠더 (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · ka სქესი (biological sex) · lo ເພດ (biological sex) · ky жыныс (biological sex) · lo ລິງ (biological sex) · id jenis (biological sex) · ar جِنْس (biological sex) · af geslag (biological sex) · yi דזשענדער (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · es sexo (biological sex) · kmr zayend (biological sex) · sh по̑л (biological sex) · pt gênero (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · mt sess (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · tg ҷинс (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · ko 성별 (biological sex) · el γένος (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · id jenis kelamin (biological sex) · th ลิงค์ (grammar: division of nouns and pronouns) · nan-hbl 性別 /性别 (biological sex) · uk ґе́ндер (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · ja 性 (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · lv dzimte (biological sex) · hu társadalmi nem (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · fi sosiaalinen sukupuoli (identification as a man, a woman, or something else) · mk пол (biological sex)
From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun. Displaced native Old English hād (“sex, gender”).
Meanings
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). 2011, Kristen Schilt, Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality, page 147:
To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
“Obedient and obliging machines that pretend to be women are entering our homes, cars and offices,” Saniye Gulser Corat, Unesco’s director for gender equality, said in a statement. “The world needs to pay much closer attention to how, when and whether A.I. technologies are gendered and, crucially, who is gendering them.” 2019 May 22, Megan Specia, “Siri and Alexa Reinforce Gender Bias, U.N. Finds”, in New York Times:
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 having been misstamped for other uses. 1997, Cheryl Glenn, Rhetoric Retold, page 120:
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 text accordingly. 1996, Athalya Brenner, A Feminist Companion to the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament, page 191:
Yet because texts by “female authors” are not dependent on the voice to gender the text, the topics that they address and the traditions that they employ seem broader and somewhat less constrained by gender stereotypes. 2003, “Reading the Anonymous Female Voice”, in The Anonymous Renaissance: Cultures of Discretion in Tudor-Stuart England, page 244:
es generizar (to assign a specific gender) · es generificar (to assign a specific gender) · es generificar (to perceive or address as a specific gender) · es generizar (to perceive or address as a specific gender) · fr genrer (to perceive or address as a specific gender)
Etymology tree
Latin generāreder.
Middle French gendrerder.
Middle English gendren
English gender
Inherited from Middle English gendren, from Middle French gendrer, from Latin generāre.
Meanings
(archaic) To engender.
Our whole life was passed in public, which gendered a sympathy and good fellowship that always distinguishes Wykehamists from the rest of mankind. 1893, The Academy and Literature, page 71:
[…] Abraham had two ſonnes, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman, was borne after the fleſh: but hee of the freewoman, was by promiſe. Which things are an Allegorie; for theſe are the two Couenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. […] But Jeruſalem which is aboue is free, which is the mother of vs all. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Galatians 4:22–24 and 26, signature [S4], verso, column 2:
[…] being a stranger to those restrictions which were afterwards laid on his posterity by the Mosaic law, and which gendered a servile frame of spirit. 1854, Robert Gordon (D.D., Minister of the Free High Church, Edinburgh.), Christ as Made Known to the Ancient Church: an Exposition of the Revelation of Divine Grace, as Unfolded in the Old Testament Scriptures, page 400
(archaic, obsolete) To breed.
Fear in the witch's heart was gendering with her hate,
Seeing her evil thought grown to an evil deed, […] 1896, John Todhunter, Three Irish Bardic Tales: Being Metrical Versions of the Three Tales Known as the Three Sorrows of Story-telling, page 11:
Yee ſhall keepe my Statutes: Thou ſhalt not let thy cattel gender with a diuerſe kinde: Thou ſhalt not ſowe thy field with mingled ſeed: Neither ſhall a garment mingled of linnen and woollen come vpon thee. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 19:19, signature [L5], recto, column 2:
They are nearly round, a little flattish on one side, which lies next the bottom of the sea; and they are from one to eight inches thick. They crawl up into shallow water at particular seasons of the year, probably for the purpose of gendering, as we often find them in pairs. 1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC: