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Neuter   /nˈutər/   Listen
Neuter

noun
1.
A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine).





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"Neuter" Quotes from Famous Books



... them express themselves more correctly than the ordinary peasant, others use the Gaelic idioms continually and substitute 'he' or 'she' for 'it,' as the neuter pronoun is ...
— The Aran Islands • John M. Synge
... untranslatable, though my dictionary translates it. Backfisch, m. fried fish; young girl; says the dictionary. In Germany a woman does not arrive at her own gender till she marries and becomes somebody's Frau. Woman in general, girl, and miss are neuter; and the fried-fish girl is masculine. But if one little versed in German wished to tell you that he liked a fried sole, and said Ich liebe einen Backfisch, it might lead to misunderstandings. The origin of the ...
— Home Life in Germany • Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick
... that this vexed question is one of paramount importance, has declared itself not neuter, but passive; has given at large its opinion, favourable to general education, conducted upon the most liberal acceptance of the charter; and has left it to the wisdom of the Canadian Parliament ...
— Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 • Richard Henry Bonnycastle


Words linked to "Neuter" :   gender, sterilize, desexualize, grammatical gender, fix, sterilise, defeminize, unsex, nonsexual, feminine, sexless, desexualise, masculine, desex, castrate, defeminise, alter, asexual


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