• n.
    ⦿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

Semantic relations

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:grammatical gender
wn:interlingual indexili:i69735

Other

dc:Subjectnoun.communication
skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • gendergrammatical gender
  • grammatical gender