Usually means: Castrated male, often historical servant.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. eunuch: Merriam-Webster
  2. eunuch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. eunuch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. eunuch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. eunuch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Eunuch, eunuch: Wordnik
  7. eunuch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. eunuch: Wiktionary
  9. eunuch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. eunuch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. eunuch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Eunuch, eunuch: Dictionary.com
  13. eunuch: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. eunuch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Eunuch (court official), Eunuch (disambiguation), Eunuch (film), Eunuch, The Eunuch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Eunuch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. eunuch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. eunuch: Rhymezone
  19. Eunuch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. eunuch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. eunuch: FreeDictionary.org
  22. eunuch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. eunuch: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. eunuch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Eunuch: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eunuch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. eunuch: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. eunuch: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  2. EUNUCH: Acronym Finder

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Eunuch: Easton Bible
  2. Eunuch: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

(Note: See eunuchism as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A castrated human male.
noun:  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.
noun:  (in translations of ancient texts) A man who is not inclined to marry and procreate.
noun:  (figurative) One that is ineffectual.
verb:  To castrate
verb:  (figurative) To render ineffectual.

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