S: (n) gender, grammatical gender (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)
S: (n) feminine (a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female)
S: (n) masculine (a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male)
S: (n) neuter (a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine))