Gay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

Contents:

• GAY
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY
• GAY (ADJ.)

GAY

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MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

Adjective, gay·er, gay·, relatg to, or beg a person who is sexually or romantilly attracted to people of their own sex or genr: A gay uple strolled by on the, relatg to, or beg a person who is sexually or romantilly attracted only to people of their own sex or genr: Gay and bisexual men are both discsed this, ditg, or supportg terts or issu pertag to gay people or the gay muny: He giv charable ntributns to a gay anizatn. (ed pecially of women and pecially poetry) betiful, lofty, noble, or excellent: The learned man hath got the lady gay. Sexually unrtraed; havg loose morals: In the 1930s movie, the baron is referred to as “a gay old rogue wh an eye for the ladi.

Appropriately forward or bold; overly faiar; reckls: Gee got gay at the Christmas party and sudnly swept his boss's wife onto the dance floor.

A person, pecially a man, who is sexually or romantilly attracted exclively to people of the same sex or of gay1First rerd 1275–1325; Middle English gai, om Old French “happy, cheerful, ” om Germanic; pare Old High German gāhi “fast, sudn”age alert For gayThe sexual orientatn meang of the word gay has bee so predomant that people hate to e the term s origal sens of “merry, lively” and “bright or showy. This sexual world clud gay men too, and gay as an adjective the sexual meang go back at least to the late 1930s. After World War II, as social attus toward sexualy began to change, gay was applied openly by gay men to themselv, first as an adjective and later as a noun.

WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY

It has been argued that gay the sense “awkward, stupid, or bad” is pennt of the sexual sense, and therefore not homophobic. This argument is weakened by the fact that the sexual meang has long been the domant one, and th permeat all ag of gay.

Age note For gayWords like gay and lbian are often ed as umbrella terms scribg anyone who experienc same-genr attractn, and also as more specific labels. Umbrella age, as gay marriage or lbian uple, typilly refers to any same-genr pairg, or to any person who is attracted to people of their own genr. Gay self n also be ed as an even more general term scribg people of all genrs who are attracted to their own genr.

GAY (ADJ.)

As more specific labels, gay and lbian often mean exclive attractn to the same genr, and may be ed ntrast wh terms like bisexual. And gay n also be ed to refer to only men who are attracted to men (exclively or not), ntrast to lbian, which only refers to women. Other words om gaygay·ns, nounnon·gay, adjectiveWords Nearby gaygawkgawkygawpGawragawsygayGayagayalGaya MaretangayatrigaydarOther fns for Gay (2 of 2)nounJohn, 1685–1732, English poet and dramatist.

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Brish Dictnary fns for gay (1 of 2)adjectivehomosexualof or for homosexuals: a gay clubreee and merry: a gay temperamentbrightly loured; brilliant: a gay hatgiven to pleasure, p social entertament: a gay lifeOrig of gay1C13: om Old French gai, om Old Provençal, of Germanic origage For gayGayns is the word ed to refer to homosexualy. The noun which refers to beg reee and merry is gaietyDerived forms of gaygayns, nounBrish Dictnary fns for Gay (2 of 2)nounJohn.

Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Cultural fns for gayDcriptive term for New Dictnary of Cultural Leracy, Third Edn. The term gay is equently ed as a synonym for homosexual; female homosexualy is often referred to as different tim and different cultur, homosexual behavur has been varly approved of, tolerated, punished, and banned. Homosexualy was not unmon ancient Greece and Rome, and the relatnships between adult and adolcent mal particular have bee a chief foc of Wtern classicists recent years.

Others—om factns wh mastream Prottantism to anizatns of Reform rabbis—have advoted, on theologil as well as social grounds, the full acceptance of homosexuals and their relatnships.

Morn velopments Attus toward homosexualy are generally flux, partially as a rult of creased polil activism (see gay rights movement) and efforts by homosexuals to be seen not as aberrant personali but as differg om “normal” dividuals only their sexual orientatn.