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Meaning of "natural gender" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF NATURAL GENDER

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NATURAL GENDER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Natural gender is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NATURAL GENDER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Grammatical gender

In linguistics, grammatical gender is a specific form of noun-class system in which the division of noun classes has a correspondence with natural gender. This system is used in approximately one fourth of the world's languages. In these languages, every noun inherently carries one value of the grammatical category called gender; the values present in a given language are called the genders of that language. According to one definition: "Genders are classes of nouns reflected in the behaviour of associated words." Common gender divisions include masculine and feminine; masculine, feminine and neuter; or animate and inanimate. In a few languages, the gender assignation of nouns is solely determined by their meaning or attributes, like biological sex, humanness, animacy. However, in most languages, this semantic division is only partially valid, and many nouns may belong to a gender category that contrasts with their meaning. In this case, the gender assignation can also be influenced by the morphology or phonology of the noun, or in some cases can be apparently arbitrary.

Definition of natural gender in the English dictionary

The definition of natural gender in the dictionary is grammatical gender that reflects, as in English, the sex or animacy of the referent of a noun rather than the form or any other feature of the word.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NATURAL GENDER

natural causes
natural childbirth
natural classification
natural deduction
natural disaster
natural frequency
natural gas
natural historian
natural history
natural immunity
natural justice
natural language
natural language processing
natural law
natural logarithm
natural monopoly
natural number
natural philosopher
natural philosophy
natural rate of unemployment

WORDS THAT END LIKE NATURAL GENDER

Alexander
bartender
bender
blender
calender
defender
entender
extender
fender
gender
lavender
lender
offender
pretender
render
sender
slender
surrender
tender
transgender
vender

Synonyms and antonyms of natural gender in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «natural gender» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NATURAL GENDER

Find out the translation of natural gender to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of natural gender from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «natural gender» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

天然的性别
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

de género naturales
570 millions of speakers

English

natural gender
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्राकृतिक लिंग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بين الجنسين الطبيعي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

естественно пол
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

gênero natural
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রাকৃতিক লিঙ্গ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

genre naturel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jantina semulajadi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

natürliche Geschlecht
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自然の性別
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자연 성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jender alami
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giới tự nhiên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இயற்கை பாலினம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नैसर्गिक लिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Doğal cinsiyet
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

genere naturale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

naturalne płci
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

природно пол
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

gen naturale
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φυσικά το φύλο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

natuurlike geslag
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

naturlig kön
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

naturlig kjønn
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of natural gender

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NATURAL GENDER»

The term «natural gender» is used very little and occupies the 154.539 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of natural gender
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NATURAL GENDER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «natural gender» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «natural gender» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about natural gender

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NATURAL GENDER»

Discover the use of natural gender in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to natural gender and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Language, Gender and Sexual Identity: Poststructuralist ...
Languages without grammatical gender are said to possess 'natural gender' to express the extralinguistic category of biological gender. One such example is English, in which the anaphoric usage of the pronouns she and he when referring to ...
Heiko Motschenbacher, 2010
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Gender in Grammar and Cognition
Many Polish animate nouns (denoting humans and some higher order animals) are divided according to a semantic criterion, i.e., they reflect the natural gender of their referents. Thus, nouns denoting males are masculine, those denoting ...
Barbara Unterbeck, 2000
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Gender Shifts in the History of English
The proposal that English anaphoric pronouns shifted to natural gender as early as the Old English period opens the possibility of an exception: an innovative, modern syntactic feature flourishing before the Middle English period. But the ...
Anne Curzan, 2003
4
Sociolinguistic Variation and Change
We examine this suggestion with particular reference to grammatical gender and to the natural gender of self- reference. GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES Although there is not total agreement about what the major 'grammatical categories' are, ...
Peter Trudgill, 2002
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Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children
As noted in Chapter 8, languages generally fall into two major types, those that have grammatical gender and those that have natural gender. In a natural gender language, like English, nouns that refer to humans and animate beings are ...
D. Kimbrough Oller, Rebecca E. Eilers, 2002
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Gender Across Languages: The Linguistic Representation of ...
In this chapter I explore how we might go about analyzing these alternations, particularly given the traditional linguistic distinction between “grammatical gender” on the one hand and “natural gender” on the other. In the first kind of system, ...
Marlis Hellinger, Hadumod Bussmann, 2002
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Synchronic English Linguistics: An Introduction
... the personal and possessive pronouns he / him / his, she / her, it, the use of which is almost exclusively motivated by the semantic parameters 'human' and ' natural gender' (if we disregard the use of she / her for ships and other vehicles).
Paul Georg Meyer, 2005
8
Gender and Ideology in Translation: Do Women and Men ...
Non-linguistically speaking, gender is defined as the sex of an object as either male or female which is in turn known as 'natural gender' or 'referential gender' or simply 'the sex of the object' (Baron, 1986; Ervin, 1962; Fodor, 1959).
Vanessa Leonardi, 2007
9
Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis
Since gender norms, according to Butler, are "discursively constituted", discourse analysis becomes a potent means by which the process of purportedly 'natural' gender divisions and oppositions may be traced and decoded. The approach to ...
Lia Litosseliti, Jane Sunderland, 2002
10
Analyzing the Grammar of English
(In practice, such "animals" are limited to human beings and larger mammals — cows, horses, pigs, elk, moose, etc.) So in natural gender, a noun's is grammatically masculine or feminine depending on whether the animal the noun denotes is ...
Richard V. Teschner, Eston Earl Evans, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NATURAL GENDER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term natural gender is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tweeps share concern about #GlobalWarming
@SaveHatchlings: “Hotter sand caused by #globalwarming affects #hatchlings by altering natural gender ratios.” @wwf_uk: “Is anyone else ... «gulfnews.com, Jul 15»
2
Your Three Genders
These natural gender variations can combine in many ways. I suspect that your 'gender combination' is one of the largest factors shaping your ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
3
Bearded Dragon Lizards of Australia Exhibit Sex Reversal Due to …
Previous lab studies have shown that increased temperatures can alter the natural gender that was determined by the presence of a certain ... «The Monitor Daily, Jul 15»
4
Flower power ... HeroBoyfriend app co-founder Dan Groch now …
Broomhall said she felt it might not work for all couples, but believed it would be great to bridge the natural gender gap between men's and ... «NEWS.com.au, Jun 15»
5
Tales From an Upside-Down World
In it he decried state laws that bar psychiatrists from trying to help a minor with gender confusion to have natural gender feelings. The states that ... «theTrumpet.com, Jun 15»
6
(The Black Hat) Gender Benders: America's Ex-Men
She was at odds with her natural gender; it became a burden over which she had no control nor could subdue. Like Williams, others who ... «Eurweb.com, Jun 15»
7
City and YMCA offer summer camp programs
To some degree, they reinforced natural gender stereotypes, with boys opting for athletic competition, and girls cooperating on group projects. «Naples Daily News, Jun 15»
8
FACT: Bruce Jenner is and always will be a male
How is encouraging Jenner to hate his natural gender compassionate? To me, if you were really compassionate, you would encourage him to ... «Cowger Nation, Jun 15»
9
Why Caitlyn Jenner and Other Transsexuals Truly Deserve Your …
These stories are a big win in a world where heterosexual men and women in natural gender roles is the only idea of 'normal'. It's not. Even though transgender ... «iDiva.com, Jun 15»
10
Being transgender is a 'mental disorder . . . biologically impossible …
... laws barring psychiatrists, “even with parental permission, from striving to restore natural gender feelings to a transgender minor,” he said. «Starr 103.5 FM, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Natural gender [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/natural-gender>. May 2024 ».
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