gen.
gen. is the abbreviation of gender.
gen. is the abbreviation of generation.
gen. is the abbreviation of genitive.
gen. is the abbreviation of genus.
gen. is the abbreviation of general.
gen. is the abbreviation of generally.
Meaning of gender
Noun
gender (countable and uncountable, plural genders)
- Class; kind.
- […]plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many[…]c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
- Synonyms:
- genre
- Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).
- the gene is activated in both genders
- Identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. (Compare gender role, gender identity.)
- I am a cross-dresser by pleasure and inclination, a transgenderal person. To me for human beings to express themselves along gender lines is a wonderful and uniquely human phenomena.1979 January 8, Merissa Sherrill Lynn, “Statement”, in Newsletter, number 7, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1
- A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate.
- The pronominal declension [of English], on which we will focus most of our attention, inflects pronouns for person, number, case, gender, animacy, and reflexivity.1990, Edwin L. Battistella, Markedness: The Evaluative Superstructure of Language, →ISBN, page 73
- Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”).
- 143. […] We have now to speak of the following eight particulars relating to verbs: Gender or Sort, Person, Number, Time, Mode, Participle, Gerund, and Supine. [...]
- 1st.--Of the Gender.
- 144. Gender means the same as sort or kind. There are four principal Sorts of Verbs; namely, Active verbs, Passive verbs, Neuter verbs, and Impersonal verbs.1835, James Paul Cobbett, A Latin Grammar for the Use of English Boys: Being an Explanation of the Rudiments of the Latin Language, London, page 111
- Synonyms:
- voice
- The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless or androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type).
- Connectors are identified by gender. When copper pins are exposed in the connector, its gender is male.2015, Ron Carswell, Shen Jiang, Mary Ellen Hardee, Guide to Parallel Operating Systems with Windows 10 and Linux, page 10
Meaning of generation
Noun
generation (countable and uncountable, plural generations)
- The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
- The generation of peat, when not completely under water, is confined to moist situations […]1832, Charles Lyell, chapter XIII, in Principles of Geology […] , volume II, London: John Murray, page 210
- The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
- So all things else, that nourish vitall blood, / Soone as with fury thou doest them inspire, / In generation seek to quench their inward fire.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- Race, family; breed.
- Thy Mothers of my generation: what's she, if I be a Dogge?c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
- {{RQ:KJV|passage=This is the book of the generations of Adam|Genesis|5|1}
- Descendants, progeny; offspring.
- The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
- Before the independence of India the books of Dr P. K. Yadav presented a fundamental challenge to the accepted ideas of race relations that, two generations later, will be true of the writings of the radical writers of the 1970s.2008, Edgar Thorpe, Objective English
Noun capitalized: Gen.
Gen. (plural Gens.)
- Abbreviation of General (military rank).
- As soon as Gen. Steedman had completed his movement, the commands of Gens. Smith and Wilson moved out along the Harding pike, and commenced the grand movement of the day by wheeling to the left and advancing against the enemy’s position across the Harding and Hillsboro pikes.1865, Report of the Adjutant General and Acting Quartermaster General of the State of Iowa, Des Moines, Ia.: F. W. Palmer, […], page 1349
- Abbreviation of general (business or agency description).
Proper noun capitalized: Gen.
Gen.
- Abbreviation of Genesis.
Forms of gen.
| plural | Gens. |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Gen |
| alternative form | Genl |
| alternative form | Gen'l |
Words formed from gen.
- maj. gen.
- gen. et sp. nov.
- gen. ed.
- Lt.Gen.
- Lt.-Gen.
Phrases with gen.
Questions about gen.
Words near gen. in the dictionary
Source and license
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