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grammatical gender

Definitions

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • 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

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hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. grammatical category
  2. syntactic category

hyponyms (3)

Words more specific or concrete

  1. feminine
  2. masculine
  3. neuter

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