Meaning
- (noun) Class; kind.
- (noun) (grammar) 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.
- (noun) (now sometimes proscribed) Sex (a category such as "male" or "female" into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species). “The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors.”
- (noun) 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.)
- (noun) (hardware) The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless/androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).
- (verb) 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.
- (verb) To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
- (verb) To engender.
- (verb) To breed.
- (noun) Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character “His low voice allowed him to become a bass in the choir.”
- (noun) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
- (noun) The tone or sound emitted by an object
Letter breakdown
- Genders contains 7 letters: 2 vowel(s) and 5 consonant(s).
- It uses 6 unique letters.
- Estimated syllable count: 2.
- Scrabble-style letter score: 9.
Connected words
Other 7-letter words
- abalone
- abandon
- abashed
- abashes
- abasing
- abating
- abbrevs
- abdomen
- abducts
- abetted
- abetter
- abettor
- abiding
- ability
- abjured
- abjures
- abolish
- aborted
Words starting with GEN
- gen
- gendarme
- gendarmes
- gender
- gene
- genealogical
- genealogies
- genealogist
- genealogists
- genealogy
- genera
- general
- generalissimo
- generalissimos
- generalities
- generality
- generalization
- generalizations
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Words ending with ERS
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Reader questions
What does Genders mean?
Class; kind.
How many letters are in Genders?
Genders has 7 letters.
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