Dictionary Check: gender
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Scrabble
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Words with Friends
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Definition
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
noun
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
Example:
"she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"
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