noun

1. Class; kind.

2. (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.

3. (now sometimes proscribed) Sex (a category such as "male" or "female" into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).

   “The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors.”

Synonyms: sex, genre, voice

verb

1. 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.

2. To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender.

noun

1. Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character

   “His low voice allowed him to become a bass in the choir.”

2. Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.

3. The tone or sound emitted by an object

Synonyms: say-so, steven, vote, reard, steven, diathesis, gender, grammatical voice