Eunuch

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A castrated man employed as a harem attendant or as a functionary in certain Asian courts.
  • n. A man or boy whose testes are nonfunctioning or have been removed.
  • n. Informal An ineffectual, powerless, or unmasculine man.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A castrated human male.
  • n. A sterilized human female (cf. The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer).
  • n. Such a man employed as harem guard or in certain (mainly Eastern) monarchies (e.g. late Roman and Chinese Empires) as court or state officials.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some of them, in former times, gained high official rank.
  • v. To make a eunuch of; to castrate. as a man.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In the East, a chamberlain; a keeper of the bedchamber, or of the women in a large or polygamous household: an office generally (and in the latter case always) held by castrated men, and often bringing to its holders in princely houses great political influence.
  • n. Hence, in general Any castrated male of the human species.
  • Unproductive; barren.
  • To make a eunuch of; castrate, as a man.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction
  • Equivalent
    eunuchate   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    adult male    man   
    Cross Reference
    de-sex    castrato    neuter    castrate    castratism    gelding    desex    sterilize   
    Form
    eunuchism    eunuchry