homosexual
English dictionary entry
Meanings
adj
- Sexually and/or romantically attracted to members of the same sex, such as a man who is attracted to men or a woman who is attracted to women; gay. (Typically used in the sense of sole/exclusive attraction.)
- Between two people of the same sex; gay.
- Intended for or used by homosexuals, as a nightclub, a bar, etc.
noun
- A person who is sexually attracted solely or primarily to others of the same sex.
Pronunciation
/ˌhɒməʊˈsɛksjuːəl/
/ˌhɒməʊˈsɛkʃuːəl/
/ˌhəʊməʊˈsɛksjuːəl/
/ˌhəʊməʊˈsɛkʃuːəl/
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hō'mə-sĕkʹsho͞o-əl
hō'mō-sĕkʹsho͞o-əl
/ˌhoʊməˈsɛkʃuːəl/
/ˌhoʊmoʊˈsɛkʃuːəl/
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Word forms
homosexual
more homosexual
most homosexual
homosexuals
Etymology
Borrowed from German homosexual, from homo- (“same”) + sexual (“relating to sex or sexuality”), coined by Karl Maria Kertbeny in 1868, and popularized in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis (2nd ed. 1887, in German) and Charles Gilbert Chaddock's 1892 English translation thereof (compare bisexual), displacing the slightly older term Uranian. Equivalent to homo- + -sexual.
Synonyms
homophile
homosexual
like that
queer
similisexual
that way
gay
lesbian
same-sex
This section is divided into two tables
one containing synonyms that generally are not derogatory and one containing those that generally are. However
note that the non-derogatory terms can nonetheless be used derogatorily
and that some of the derogatory ones are often used humorously and non-derogatorily by gay people and others
of either sex* gay
invert
same-sexer
only of men* company man
Uranian
only of women* lesbian
sapphist
of either sex* bugger
fruit
homo
moffie
only of men* fag
faggot
finook
pole-smoker
fairy
flamer
nance
nancy
nancy boy
pansy
poofter
queen
pederast
sodomite
swish
light in the loafers
only of women* lesbo
dyke
muff-diver
carpet muncher
scissor sister
Antonyms
Derived words
antihomosexual
Cuomosexual
fauxmosexual
globohomo
Homintern
homocapitalism
Homocaust
homocon
homocrat
homosexless
homosexualisation
homosexualise
homosexualism
homosexualist
homosexuality
homosexualization
homosexualize
homosexually
homosexual marriage
homosexualness
homosexual panic defense
homosexual transsexual
I'm homosexual
nonhomosexual
pseudohomosexual
queerosexual
sinthomosexual
homo
Translations
Arabic: مِثْلِيّ الْجِنْس
Arabic: مِثْلِيّ
Arabic: شَاذّ جِنْسِيًّا
Arabic: لُوطِيّ
Armenian: միասեռական
Azerbaijani: homoseksual
Belarusian: гамасексуа́льны
Belarusian: гомасексуа́льны
Bulgarian: хомосексуа́лен
Catalan: homosexual
Cebuano: bayot
Cebuano: bakla
Chinese Mandarin: 同性戀的 /同性恋的
Chinese Mandarin: 同性的
Coptic: ⲗⲁⲃⲟⲧⲉ
Coptic: ⲗⲁⲃⲟϯ
Czech: homosexuální
Danish: homoseksuel
Dutch: homoseksueel
Dutch: van de verkeerde kant
Esperanto: samseksema
Esperanto: samseksama
Faroese: samkyndur
Finnish: homoseksuaalinen
Finnish: homo
French: homosexuel
French: homosexuelle
Galician: homosexual
Georgian: ჰომოსექსუალი
German: homosexuell
German: schwul
Greek: ομοφυλόφιλος
Greek: ομοφυλόφιλη
Greek: γκέι
Greek: λεσβιακή
Ancient Greek: κίναιδος
Ancient Greek: λάσταυρος
Ancient Greek: βάταλος
Hebrew: הוֹמוֹסֶקְסוּאָל
Hindi: समलैंगिक
Hungarian: homoszexuális
Icelandic: samkynhneigður
Ido: homeosexuala
Indonesian: homoseksual
Interlingua: homosexual
Irish: homaighnéasach
Irish: aerach
Italian: omosessuale
Japanese: 同性愛者
Kazakh: гомосексуалды
Khmer: ខ្ទើយ
Ladino: omoseksual
Lao: ກະເທີຍ
Lao: ຮັກຮ່ວມເພດ
Latin: cinaedus
Latin: cinaedicus
Latin: draucus
Latin: homosexualis
Latvian: homoseksuāls
Lithuanian: homoseksualus
Lithuanian: homoseksuali
Malay: homoseksual
Maltese: omosesswali
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