Look up: eunuch

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   eunuch
   [n] - a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction
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   eunuch
   Castrated man. Originally eunuchs were bedchamber attendants in harems in the East, but as they were usually castrated to keep them from taking too great an interest in their charges, the term...
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   Eunuch
   Eu'nuch noun [ Latin eunuchus , Greek ..., prop., keeping or guarding the couch; ... couch, bed, + ... to have, hold, keep.] 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.
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   eunuch
   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. ... Origin: L. Eunuchus, Gr, prop, keeping or guarding the couch; couch, bed, + to have, hold, keep. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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   eunuch
   castrate noun a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction; `eunuchs guarded the harem`
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   Eunuch
   A `eunuch` is a castrated man; the term usually refers to those castrated in order to perform a specific social function, as was common in many societies of the past. The earliest records for intentional castration to produce eunuchs are from the Sumerian city of Lagash in the twenty first century BC. Over the millennia since, they have performed a wide variety of functions in many different cultures such as courtiers or equivalent domestics, tre...
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   eunuch
   (u´nәk) a male deprived of the testes or external genitals, especially one castrated before puberty so that male secondary sex characters fail to develop. See also castration.
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   Eunuch
   • (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. t.) Alt. of Eunuchate
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   eunuch
   castrated human male. From remote antiquity, eunuchs were employed in the Middle East and in China in two main functions: as guards and servants in ... [4 related articles]
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    eunuch
    eunuch 1. a castrated man employed as a harem attendant or functionary in certain Oriental courts. 2. A castrated man, employed in Asia, and later in Greece, to take charge of the women and to act as a chamberlain. 3. A man or boy deprived of the testes or the external genital organs, especially one castrated before puberty (so that male secondary sex cha...
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    eunuch
    A male individual whose testes have been removed or have never developed. [G. eunouchos, chamberlain, fr. eun, bed, + echmacr;o, to have]
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    eunuch
    eunuch (yOO'nik) [Gr.,=keeper of the couch], castrated human male, particularly a chamberlain of a harem in Asia. The custom of employing eunuchs as servants in wealthy or royal households is very ancient; it reached its epitome at the court of Constantinople under the Byzantine emperors, from w...
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