Definitions of Neuter [ˈnu tər, ˈnyu-]

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Definition of 'Neuter'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) neuter
of, pertaining to, or being a grammatical gender that refers to things classed as neither masculine nor feminine.

2.  neuter
(of a verb) intransitive.

3.  neuter
Biol. having no organs of reproduction; without sex; asexual.

4.  neuter
Zool. having imperfectly developed sexual organs, as worker bees.

5.  neuter
Bot. having neither stamens nor pistils; asexual.

6.  neuter
neutral; siding with no one.

7. (n.) neuter
the neuter gender.

8.  neuter
a word or other linguistic form in or marking the neuter gender.

9.  neuter
an animal made sterile by castration or spaying.

10.  neuter
a neuter insect.

11.  neuter
an asexual plant.

12.  neuter
a person or thing that is neutral.

13. (v.t.) neuter
to spay or castrate (a dog, cat, etc.).

Etymology: (1350–1400; ME neutre < MF < L neuter neither (of two))

Definition of 'Neuter'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) neuter
a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)

2. (adj) neuter
of grammatical gender
"`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun"

3. (verb) neuter, sexless
having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs

4. (verb) alter, neuter, spay, castrate
remove the ovaries of
"Is your cat spayed?"

Definition of 'Neuter'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) Neuter
neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral

2. (adj) Neuter
having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex; as, a neuter noun; a neuter termination; the neuter gender

3. (adj) Neuter
intransitive; as, a neuter verb

4. (adj) Neuter
having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3

5. (noun) Neuter
a person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral

6. (noun) Neuter
a noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words

7. (noun) Neuter
an intransitive verb

8. (noun) Neuter
an organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; esp., one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers

Translation of 'Neuter'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: in certain languages, of the gender which is neither masculine nor feminine a neuter noun.
Afrikaans: onsydige geslag	Arabic: مُحايِد: لا مُذَكَّر ولا	Bulgarian: среден род
Brazilian: neutro	Czech: středního rodu	German: sächlich
Danish: intetkøn; intetkøns-	Greek: ουδέτερος (γραμμ.)	Spanish: neutro
Estonian: kesksoost	Farsi: خنثی	Finnish: neutri
French: neutre	Hebrew: סְתָמִי, מְחוּסַר מִין	Hindi: नपुंसक लिंग
Croatian: srednjeg roda	Hungarian: semleges (nemű)	Indonesian: netral
Icelandic: hvorugkyns	Italian: neutro	Japanese: 中性の
Korean: (문법의) 중성의	Lithuanian: niekatrosios, bevardės gi	Latvian: nekatrs; nekatras dzimtes
Malay: neutral	Dutch: onzijdig	Norwegian: intetkjønn, nøytrum
Polish: nijaki	Persian: خنثی	Pashto: خنثى
Portuguese: neutro	Romanian: neutru	Russian: среднего рода
Slovak: stredného rodu	Slovenian: srednji spol	Serbian: srednji
Swedish: neutral, neutrum-	Thai: เป็นกลาง	Turkish: cinsiyetsiz, nötr
Taiwanese: 中性的(名詞的性)	Ukrainian: середній, середнього роду	Urdu: نہ مذکر نہ مؤنث
Vietnamese: thuộc giống trung	Chinese: 中性的（名詞）
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