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acaults

acaults is the plural of acault.

Meaning of acault

Noun

acault (plural acaults)

  1. A male who has special role in Myanmar folk religion and behaves in a way usually associated with women.
    • According to a recent travelers' report (Coleman, Celgon, and Gooren, 1987), the hijra community of India (see this chapter) has a counterpart in Burma, where men who live as women are called acault (pronounced a·chow').[1988, John Money, Gay, Straight, and In-Between, →ISBN, page 100

Questions about acaults

What is acaults the plural of?
Acaults is the plural of acault.

Words near acaults in the dictionary

  1. acauline
  2. acaulose
  3. acaulosia
  4. acaulous
  5. acault
  6. acaults
  7. acausal
  8. acausalities
  9. acausality
  10. acausally
  11. acaustobiolith

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