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epicene | |
1. adj. : always grammatically feminine, even when referring to male foxes | |
2. adj. (ncog, en, violinist) | |
3. adj. : genderless | |
4. adj. (ncog, fr, enfant, , child) | |
5. adj. : gendered but invariant | |
6. adj. (linguistics) Of or related to a class of Greek and Latin nouns that may refer to men or women but have a fixed grammatical gender. | |
7. adj. (linguistics) Of or related to nouns (in any language) that have a single form for male and female referents. | |
8. adj. (biology & figuratively) Of indeterminate sex, whether asexual, hermaphrodite, androgynous, or intersex. | |
9. adj. (figuratively, of men usually pejorative) Effeminate. | |
10. adj. (figuratively) Indeterminate; mixed. | |
11. adj. Suitable for use regardless of sex: unisex. | |
12. n. (linguistics) An epicene word. | |
13. n. (linguistics, with definite article) The epicene words of a language as a class. | |
14. n. An epicene person, an androgyne, whether biologically asexual, intersex, or hermaphrodite or of indeterminate sex in behavior and appearance. | |
15. n. (of men, usually pejorative) An effeminate man, particularly a man dressed as a woman. | |