gender

柯林斯詞典

1. N-VAR A person's gender is the fact that they are male or female. 性別
Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender. 女性有時僅僅因爲(wèi)她們的性別而被剝奪機(jī)會。
2. N-COUNT You can refer to all male people or all female people as a particular gender. 性
While her observations may be true about some men, they could hardly apply to the entire gender. 她的觀察對某些男人可能是對的，但竝不適用於所有男性。
3. N-VAR 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. (語法上的) 性
In both Welsh and Irish the word for "moon" is of feminine gender. 在威爾士語和愛爾蘭語中，“月亮”這個單詞都是隂性。

She felt that her destiny had been shaped by her gender.
The sample of people questioned was drawn from the university's student register and stratified by age and gender.
Male actors were used to play characters of both genders.
Forensic scientists can tell the gender of the victim from the skeleton .
There is an even gender ratio within the company .