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2. Verb. (third-person singular of gender) ¹

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Definition of Genders

1. gender [v] - See also: gender

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genders

Literary usage of Genders

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown (1851)
"genders, in grammar, are modifications that distinguish objects in regard ... The different genders in grammar are founded on the natural distinction of sex ..."

2. The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Forms of by Goold Brown, Henry Kiddle (1873)
"Pronouns are of the вате gender as the nouns for which they stand. There are three genders ; the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter. ..."

3. The Institutes of English Grammar Methodically Arranged: With Forms of by Goold Brown, Henry Kiddle (1873)
"genders. genders, in grammar, are modifications that distinguish objects in ... The different genders arc founded on the natural distinction of sex in ..."

4. Pennsylvania Dutch: A Dialect of South German with an Infusion of English by Samuel Stehman Haldeman (1872)
"The German genders. In various aboriginal languages of America there are two genders, the animate and the inanimate—with a vital instead of a sexual ..."

5. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"The present participle ends in to, ti, td. The past participle is formed by yS, I, ytt. — Marathi also distinguishes three genders. Nouns are declined as ..."

6. Ethiopic Grammar by August Dillmann, Carl Bezold (1907)
"genders OF NOMINAL STEMS. § 126. Semitic languages have long since given up the dis- Tho Iw(> tinction between a Personal and a Non-Personal (or Neuter) in ..."

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