Dictionary

Class; kind.

(grammar) 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.

(now sometimes proscribed) Sex (a category such as "male" or "female" into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species).

Example: The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors.

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.)

Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole etc.; as opposed to specific or particular.

(sometimes postpositive) Applied to a person (as a postmodifier or a normal preceding adjective) to indicate supreme rank, in civil or military titles, and later in other terms; pre-eminent.

Prevalent or widespread among a given class or area; common, usual.

Not limited in use or application; applicable to the whole or every member of a class or category.

Popularly or widely.

Example: It is generally known that the Earth is round.

As a rule; usually.

Example: I generally have a walk in the afternoon.

Without reference to specific details.

Example: Generally speaking …

Collectively; as a whole; without omissions.

The fact of creating something, or bringing something into being; production, creation.

The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.

Race, family; breed.

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.

Example: This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1

(grammar) An inflection pattern (of any given language) that expresses origin or ownership and possession.

(grammar) A word inflected in the genitive case; a word indicating origin, ownership or possession.

A rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank.

Example: All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.

A group with common attributes.

A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.

Within a definition, a broader category of the defined concept.

Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character

Example: His low voice allowed him to become a bass in the choir.

Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.

The tone or sound emitted by an object

The faculty or power of utterance

Example: to cultivate the voice