# gendered

Pronunciation: US say "JEN-derd" /ˈdʒɛndə(ɹ)d/; UK

## Adjective

1. Having qualities or features that people associate with a particular gender.
   - Simple: Showing qualities that people connect with being male or female.
   - _Marketing teams often rely on gendered color schemes, like pink for girls and blue for boys._
   - _Her research examined how gendered expectations shape children's career choices._
2. Separated or organized into distinct groups according to gender.
   - Simple: Split into separate groups for males and females.
   - _The institution maintained gendered dormitories well into the modern era._
   - _Critics argued that the gendered seating arrangement reinforced outdated norms._
3. Having a grammatical system that classifies nouns into classes such as masculine, feminine, and neuter.
   - Simple: Used of a language that sorts nouns into groups such as masculine, feminine, or neuter.
   - _French is a strongly gendered language, assigning every noun to one of two classes._
   - _Students often struggle with gendered nouns when the assigned gender seems arbitrary._

## Verb

4. Simple past and past participle of gender. — simple past and past participle of gender (“assign gender to”)
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of gender. Use it for the past, or after has, have, had, is, was or were.
   - _The registration system gendered applicants based on their first names._
   - _Early census takers gendered each household member at the door._

## Verb

5. Simple past and past participle of gender. Archaic: engendered, brought about. *(archaic)* — simple past and past participle of gender (“engender”)
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of gender. Use this old form to mean that something was caused or brought into being.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/gendered (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).