sex

noun (MALE/FEMALE)

/seks/

Definition

B1 [U] the state of being either male or female: What sex is your cat? Some tests enable you to find out the sex of your baby before it's born. It's illegal to discriminate against people on the basis of (their) sex. She accused her employer of sex discrimination (= of treating her unfairly because she was a woman).Gender-related attributesKinds of womenKinds of men C1 [C] all males considered as a group, or all females considered as a group: She seems to regard all members of the male sex as inferior. Members of the opposite sex are not allowed in students' rooms overnight.Men and womenKinds of menKinds of women

(Definition of sex noun (MALE/FEMALE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)