How to pronounce “gender”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (obsolete) Class; kind. [14th–19th c.]
• (now sometimes proscribed) Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species). [from 15th c.]
• 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.) [from 20th c.]
• (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. [from 14th c.]
• (grammar) Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”).
• (hardware) The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless or androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type). [from 20th c.]
• (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (euphemistic) Sex, sexual intercourse.
• [Verb]
• (sociology) 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.
• (sociology) To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.
• [Adjective]
• (transgender slang) Evoking positive feelings regarding gender, like gender euphoria or gender envy.

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