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Plural of gender

regular plural

The plural of gender is genders.

Forms of gender

Singulargender /ˈd͡ʒɛndə/
Pluralgenders
Countablecountable and uncountable

Genders in a sentence

  • the gene is activated in both genders
  • In President Trump’s America, there may be only two genders, but our military adventures can identify however they please.2026 March 22, Phil Klay, “Trump Has Made a Fundamental Miscalculation about Iran”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  • Nouns can be singular or plural, and one of two genders, animate or inanimate.From the entry animate
  • My plurisexual friends discussed attraction to people of multiple genders with me.From the entry plurisexual
  • German has three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter.From the entry german

Meaning of gender

  1. noun Class; kind.
  2. noun Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).
  3. noun 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.).

Full definition of gender

Questions about the plural of gender

What is the plural of gender?
The plural of gender is genders.
Is gender countable?
Gender is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gender (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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