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"English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms suffixed with -ous",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"Requests for review of Bulgarian translations",
"Requests for review of Estonian translations",
"Requests for review of Italian translations",
"Requests for review of Turkish translations",
"Rhymes:English/ɒdʒɪnəs",
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"etymology_text": "From Latin androgynus (“man-woman, hermaphrodite”), from Ancient Greek ἀνδρόγῠνος (andrógunos), from ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”) + γῠνή (gunḗ, “woman”) + -ος (-os, “-ous”, adjectival suffix).",
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"form": "more androgynous",
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"word": "androgyne"
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{
"word": "androgyny"
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{
"word": "androgynoplasty"
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{
"word": "genderqueer"
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{
"word": "gender bender"
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"word": "hermaphroditic"
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{
"word": "intersex"
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{
"word": "monogendered"
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{
"word": "shehe"
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"text": "Nicknames like Pat, Sam, and Chris are androgynous, used by both men and women.",
"type": "example"
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{
"ref": "1982, Slava Tsukerman, Anne Carlisle, Nina V. Kerova, Liquid Sky, spoken by Margaret (Anne Carlisle)",
"text": "And I was taught that to be an actress, one should be fashionable, and to be fashionable is to be androgynous. And I am androgynous not less than David Bowie himself.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1993, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 199",
"text": "My name is androgynous, in pronunciation at least – Lauren sounds like the more masculine Loren.",
"type": "quotation"
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"examples": [
{
"text": "1835, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (d. 1834), Specimens of the Table Talk\nThe truth is, a great mind must be androgynous."
}
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"Possessing qualities of both sexes."
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{
"text": "APAS is an androgynous docking system, so – in principle, at least – any APAS-equipped vehicle should be able to hook up with any other, without having to worry about matching male with female ports.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"Able to connect to another connector or port of the same type, rather than being restricted to connecting to solely male or solely female connectors or ports."
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}
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"ipa": "/ænˈdɹɒd͡ʒ.ɪn.əs/",
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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{
"ipa": "/ænˈdɹɑd͡ʒ.ən.əs/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒdʒɪnəs"
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"word": "epicene"
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{
"word": "unisex"
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"tags": [
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"sometimes"
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"word": "hermaphrodite"
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{
"english": "misspelling; a separate term",
"word": "androgenous"
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"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "pertaining to a characteristic that is not definitively of either sex",
"word": "andróxinu"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "pertaining to a characteristic that is not definitively of either sex",
"word": "androgin"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bùnánbùnǚ",
"sense": "pertaining to a characteristic that is not definitively of either sex",
"word": "不男不女"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "pertaining to a characteristic that is not definitively of either sex",
"word": "androgyyninen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "pertaining to a characteristic that is not definitively of either sex",
"word": "sukupuolineutraali"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "pertaining to a characteristic that is not definitively of either sex",
"word": "asexué"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "pertaining to a characteristic that is not definitively of either sex",
"word": "androgyne"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "pertaining to a characteristic that is not definitively of either sex",
"word": "andróxino"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "pertaining to a characteristic that is not definitively of either sex",
"word": "geschlechtsneutral"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "pertaining to a characteristic that is not definitively of either sex",
"word": "androgyn"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "andrógynos",
"sense": "pertaining to a characteristic that is not definitively of either sex",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ανδρόγυνος"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "pertaining to a characteristic that is not definitively of either sex",
"word": "uniszex"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "pertaining to a characteristic that is not definitively of either sex",
"word": "andraigíneach"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "pertaining to a characteristic that is not definitively of either sex",
"word": "andrógino"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "pertaining to a characteristic that is not definitively of either sex",
"word": "androgin"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "pertaining to a characteristic that is not definitively of either sex",
"word": "andrógino"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "pertaining to a characteristic that is not definitively of either sex",
"word": "androgynaidd"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "possessing qualities of both sexes",
"word": "androgyn"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "possessing qualities of both sexes",
"word": "tweeslachtig"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "possessing qualities of both sexes",
"word": "androgyn"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "possessing qualities of both sexes",
"word": "hermafrodiet"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "possessing qualities of both sexes",
"word": "androgyyninen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "possessing qualities of both sexes",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "androgyne"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "possessing qualities of both sexes",
"word": "hermaphrodite"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "possessing qualities of both sexes",
"word": "androgyn"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "possessing qualities of both sexes",
"word": "hímnős"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "possessing qualities of both sexes",
"word": "androgün"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "possessing qualities of both sexes",
"word": "jantina"
},
{
"alt": "りょうせいぐゆう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ryōsei guyū",
"sense": "possessing qualities of both sexes",
"word": "両性具有"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "qos jynysty",
"sense": "possessing qualities of both sexes",
"word": "қос жынысты"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "possessing qualities of both sexes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "androgyniczny"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "possessing qualities of both sexes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "androginiczny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "possessing qualities of both sexes",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "andrógino"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "possessing qualities of both sexes",
"word": "androgin"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dvupólyj",
"sense": "possessing qualities of both sexes",
"word": "двупо́лый"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "possessing qualities of both sexes",
"word": "andrógino"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "possessing qualities of both sexes",
"word": "androgynaidd"
}
],
"word": "androgynous"
}
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