Gender is a semantic category that classifies nouns, pronouns, and sometimes social identities as male, female, or nonbinary, and, in broader discourse, refers to how language encodes those distinctions. It also appears in discussions of social roles, politics, and biology, but this term frequently appears in academic and policy contexts. Pronunciation-wise, it is a single-syllable, stressed word ending in an unvoiced /d/ in many dialects.
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