a eunuch

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Referring to a castrato, or boy castrated to retain soprano or alto voice
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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
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{n} a castrated person
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A castrated human male
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A eunuch is a man who has had his testicles removed. a man whose testicles have been removed, especially someone who guarded a king's wives in some Eastern countries in the past (eunuchus, from eunouchos, from eune + echein ). Castrated human male. From remote antiquity on, eunuchs were employed in the Middle East and China as guards and servants in harems or other women's quarters and as chamberlains to kings. The eunuchs' confidential position frequently enabled them to exercise an important influence over their royal masters. Many of the patriarchs of Constantinople during Byzantine times were eunuchs. Eunuch advisers disappeared as a class only with the end of the Ottoman Empire. See also castrato
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{i} castrated man or boy; castrated man who works as a harem attendant; (Informal) inefficient or unmasculine man
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a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction; "eunuchs guarded the harem"
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Some of them, in former times, gained high official rank
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Such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state
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Referring to someone or something which has been emasculated. (very rare)
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To make a eunuch of; to castrate
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as a man
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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
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a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction; "eunuchs guarded the harem
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