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Meanings of neuter gender in English

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The neutrally determined gender of a kind of word as used by some languages.

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        Examples for "neuter"
        Examples for "neuter"
        1
        Gender, in a broad sense, is universal, and nothing was created neuter.
        The River and I
        2
        He has a masculine head, a feminine hand, and a neuter heart.
        Halleck's New English Literature
        3
        Often you are my comrade, and we are completely congenial, neuter entities.
        The Precipice: A Novel
        4
        Mentor a child, volunteer at a library, neuter some dogs, go green.
        Rogues
        5
        The third year you're a neuter; then the cycle starts all over again.
        Midnight at the well of souls
        Usage of neuter gender in English
        1
        The neuter gender business had got a pretty damaging side-hit.
        A Mortal Antipathy
        2
        The fisherman kissed the ground and answered, 'It is of the neuter gender, neither male nor female.'
        The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
        3
        One is the male transformed into neuter gender; and the other is rampant with the fierceness of his sex.
        The Foundations of Personality
        4
        On which account nouns of the neuter gender and many masculine and feminine ones have these three cases alike.
        Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
        5
        The neuter gender is absent.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        6
        And I suppose the glad-to-see him coming up the street was of the neuter gender, but it was very interesting.
        The Tinder-Box
        7
        As in the old language there was no neuter gender, the gods must always appear either as female or male.
        The God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in Religion
        8
        Be patient, milady, the physician at the bed of his patient is of the neuter gender-justas the angels are.
        Dr. Dumany's Wife
        9
        For the word "bread" in the original Greek is of the masculine, and the word "this" is of the neuter gender.
        A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 / Taken from a View of the ...
        10
        "Because 'it' is neuter gender."
        Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm