The meaning of Homosexual

Homosexual – definition

adjective
Sexually or romantically attracted exclusively to people of one's own sex.
Usage examples:
Campaigning by homosexual men and women for an end to social and legal discrimination
adjective
Sexually or romantically attracted exclusively to people of one's own sex.
Usage examples:
Campaigning by homosexual men and women for an end to social and legal discrimination
adjective
Sexually or romantically attracted exclusively to people of one's own sex.
Usage examples:
Campaigning by homosexual men and women for an end to social and legal discrimination
adjective
Sexually or romantically attracted exclusively to people of one's own sex.
Usage examples:
Campaigning by homosexual men and women for an end to social and legal discrimination

noun
Sexually attracted to people of one's own sex.
noun
A person who is sexually attracted to people of their own sex.
Synonims:
Gay person Lesbian Gay Invert Homophile Uranian Friend of dorothy Queer

Homosexual translation into English

Homosexual: translate from English into Chinese

同性恋

Homosexual: translate from English into Dutch

Homoseksueel

Homosexual: translate from English into French

Homosexuel

Homosexual: translate from English into German

Homosexuell

Homosexual: translate from English into Hindi

समलैंगिक

Homosexual: translate from English into Italian

Omosessuale

Homosexual: translate from English into Korean

동성애자

Homosexual: translate from English into Russian

Гомосексуал

Homosexual: translate from English into Spanish

Homosexual

Word origin

late 19th century: from homo- ‘same’ + sexual.

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Homosexual – similar words

homosexuality

noun
The quality or characteristic of being sexually attracted solely to people of one's own sex.
Usage examples:
The eminent biologist played a crucial role in the fight to decriminalize homosexuality in britain.

noun
The quality or fact of being sexually attracted to men if you are a man or women if you are a woman
Usage examples:
I've never been ashamed of my homosexuality., homosexuality used to be illegal in many places, but …

All meanings and translations of Homosexuality

homosexualism

noun
Homosexuality. later also: advocacy of or support for homosexual rights or equality.

All meanings and translations of Homosexualism

Homosexual synonims

gay

adjective
(of a person) homosexual (used especially of a man).
Usage examples:
The city's gay and lesbian people

noun
A homosexual person (typically referring to a man).
Usage examples:
The capital is a popular destination for gays and lesbians from all over the world

adjective
Homosexual
Usage examples:
Gay rights, her gay, lively personality made her attractive to everyone who knew her., the law bann…

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homophile

adjective
Relating to gay people.
Usage examples:
I'd taken courses in literature and language - from latin drama to modern poetry, from restoration …

noun
A gay person.
Usage examples:
Many of us were frustrated by what seemed like the complacency of older gays, just as they had once…

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invert

verb
Put upside down or in the opposite position, order, or arrangement.
Usage examples:
Invert the mousse on to a serving plate

noun
An arch constructed in an upside-down position to provide lateral support, e.g. in a tunnel.

noun
Short for invertebrate.

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lesbian

noun
A gay woman.
Usage examples:
In a few decades people will look at the bigotry against gays and lesbians as medieval.

adjective
Relating to gay women or to homosexuality in women.
Usage examples:
A lesbian relationship

adjective
From or relating to the island of lesbos.

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queer

adjective
Strange; odd.
Usage examples:
She had a queer feeling that they were being watched

verb
(of a person) homosexual.

adjective
Unusual or strange
Usage examples:
She had a queer expression on her face.

All meanings and translations of Queer

uranian

adjective
Relating to the planet uranus.
Usage examples:
Uranian moons are traditionally given shakespearean names

noun
(in science fiction) an imagined inhabitant of uranus.

noun
A gay man.
Usage examples:
I suppose in his personal life he considered himself a uranian

All meanings and translations of Uranian

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