gendered

1. 1
   adjective

   Showing qualities that people connect with being male or female.

   Like a toy aisle painted pink for girls and blue for boys.

   Many old advertisements used gendered language to sell their products.

   The school dress code felt very gendered to most of the students.

   Similarstereotyped

   Oppositeunisex, neutral

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2. 2
   adjective

   Split into separate groups for males and females.

   Like splitting a class into a line of boys and a line of girls.

   The summer camp kept its activities gendered, with separate teams for boys and girls.

   The old building still had gendered restrooms on every floor.

   Similarsingle-sex, segregated

   Oppositemixed, coed, unisex

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3. 3
   adjective

   Used of a language that sorts nouns into groups such as masculine, feminine, or neuter.

   Like sorting every word into a 'boy box' or a 'girl box' before you can use it.

   Spanish is a gendered language, so every noun is either masculine or feminine.

   Learning a gendered language is hard when each word needs the right article.

   Oppositegenderless

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4. 4
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of gender. Use it for the past, or after has, have, had, is, was or were.

   The form gendered every new user as either male or female.

   Because of her short hair, she was often gendered as a boy at school.

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