See Also: eunuch(medicine)
eunuch(dictionary)
eunuch(encyclopedia)
eunuch(dictionary)
EUNUCH(law)
Female Eunuch, The(dictionary)

masterpiece (oh) and eunuch (sh)


masterpiece (oh)



a work of Art, a piece of Writing or Music etc that is of very high quality or that is the best that a particular artist, writer etc has produced
-synonym masterwork masterwork
::Mary Shelley was just 18 when she wrote the horror masterpiece 'Frankenstein'.
a very good example of something
masterpiece of
::The shark is a masterpiece of evolution.

eunuch (sh)




Castrated human male.

From remote antiquity on, eunuchs were employed in the Middle East and China as guards and servants in harems or Other women's quarters and as chamberlains to kings. The eunuchs' confidential position frequently enabled them to Exercise an important influence over their royal masters. Many of the patriarchs of Constantinople during Byzantine times were eunuchs. Eunuch advisers disappeared as a class only with the end of the Ottoman Empire. See also castrato.