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Grammatical gender
/grəmˈætəkəl
dʒˈɛndər/
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Grammatical gender
noun
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 animateness.
Synonym:
gender
.
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