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What does eunuch mean?

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Noun
  1. A castrated human male.
  2. 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.
  3. (in translations of ancient texts) A man who is not inclined to marry and procreate.
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It is being run by champagne socialists and intellectual snobs and the Mayor is a eunuch.
In the chain of the covenantal family, the foreigner has no past and the eunuch no future.
A descendent of a famous eunuch of the Ching Dynasty is suing a Taipei hospital for medical malpractice.
She clapped her little white hands for her attending eunuch, and let the flabby monster wrap her in her mantle.
As the traditional sense of the word seems to imply, not every person referred to as a eunuch was necessarily castrated.
In a tiny apse in one corner, like an afterthought to the chamber's spacious design, the eunuch turned a key and opened a door.

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