grammatical gender

noun

, Grammar.

gender based on arbitrary assignment, without regard to the referent of a noun, as in French le livre (masculine), “the book,” and German das Mädchen (neuter), “the girl.”

First recorded in 1870–75

It is an interesting example of the continuance of a grammatical gender in English.

A few languages, like the Chinook and the Tonika, possess real grammatical gender.

In the imprecation of the female servant the grammatical gender is respected by Sra, not so in the Gtaka.

In Latin there are three genders, and the grammatical gender of a noun is not necessarily identical with its natural gender.

When a tribe bases its grammatical gender on the distinction of Animate and Inanimate, has it in no sense corresponding ideas?

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