{
    "term": "gender",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the fact of being male or female, especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences, rather than differences in biology; members of a particular gender as a group",
            "labels": "British EnglishNorth American English",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "issues of class, race and gender"
                },
                {
                    "text": "traditional concepts of gender"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Levels of physical activity did not differ between genders."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**gender differences/relations/roles/equality**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She examines the interplay between changing gender divisions and urban change."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government is working on tackling gender inequalities in employment."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["People in society"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["female", "male", "same"],
                "gender + noun": ["relations", "differences", "divisions"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "each of the classes (masculine, feminine and sometimes neuter) into which nouns, pronouns and adjectives are divided; the division of nouns, pronouns and adjectives into these different genders. Different genders may have different endings, etc.",
            "labels": "(grammar)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "In French the adjective must agree with the noun in number and gender."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Language"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdʒendə(r)/",
                "audio": "ge/gender/gender__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdʒendər/",
                "audio": "ge/gender/gender__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French gendre (modern genre), based on Latin genus ‘birth, family, nation’. The earliest meanings were ‘kind, sort, genus’ and ‘type or class of noun, etc.’ (which was also a sense of Latin genus)."
}