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GRAMMATICAL GENDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grammatical gender mean? 

GRAMMATICAL GENDER (noun)
  The noun GRAMMATICAL GENDER has 1 sense:

1. 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 animatenessplay

  Familiarity information: GRAMMATICAL GENDER used as a noun is very rare.


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GRAMMATICAL GENDER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

gender; grammatical gender

Hypernyms ("grammatical gender" is a kind of...):

grammatical category; syntactic category ((grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grammatical gender"):

feminine (a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female)

masculine (a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male)

neuter (a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine))


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