1. 性；性别
A person's gender is the fact that they are male or female.
2. （统称）男性，女性
You can refer to all male people or all female people as a particular gender.
3. （语法中名词、代词或形容词的）性
In grammar, the gender of a noun, pronoun, or adjective is whether it is masculine, feminine, or neuter. A word's gender can affect its form and behaviour. In English, only personal pronouns such as 'she', reflexive pronouns such as 'itself', and possessive determiners such as 'his' have gender.
1. the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
e.g. she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus
2. 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: grammatical gender