neuter

Meanings

Adjective

Noun

  • 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; especially, 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.
  • A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
  • The neuter gender.
  • A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
  • An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.

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Origin

  • Latin neuter, from ne + uter, a semantic loan from Koine Greek οὐδέτερος; compare English whether and neither.

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