Gay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

Contents:

• GAY
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• GAY ADJ. N.
• DEFN OF 'GAY'
• 5 DICTNARY ENTRI FOR "GAY"
• OXFORD DICTNARY DEFN OF MARRIAGE WILL NOW INCLU GAY MARRIAGE
• THE OXFORD DICTNARY IS CHANGG THE DEFN OF 'MARRIAGE' TO INCLU GAY COUPL
• GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)
• WHAT IS THE DEFN OF GAY

GAY

(of people, pecially men) sexually attracted to people of the same sex synonym homosexualgay menI didn't know he was she gay?

Oppose straightTopics People societyb2Oxford Collotns Dictnaryverbsbelooksound…adverbopenlyphrasgay and lbianSee full entry.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

[only before noun] nnected wh people who are gaya gay club/barthe lbian and gay munythe gay and lbian sectn the bookstoreOxford Collotns Dictnaryverbsbelooksound…adverbopenlyphrasgay and lbianSee full entry. [not before noun] (slang, disapprovg, offensive) (ed pecially by young people) an offensive way to scribe somethg you fd borg, stupid or not attractive (parative gayer, superlative gayt) (old-fashned) happy and full of fungay lghterShe felt lighthearted and gay. See also gaiety, gailyWord OrigMiddle English ( sense (4)): om Old French gai, of unknown whout thkg about the rults or effects of a particular actn See gay the Oxford Advanced Amerin DictnarySee gay the Oxford Learner's Dictnary of Amic EnglishCheck pronunciatn:.

GAY ADJ. N.

An adjective meang cheerful or reee that acquired an associatn wh loose morals and sexual licentns the 19th century, and approximately the 1940s me to e among members of the homosexual muny to scribe male homosexualy. a person who is gay, pecially a manTopics People societyc1Word OrigMiddle English ( sense (4)): om Old French gai, of unknown orig.

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DEFN OF 'GAY'

Jenna Lyons, the first openly gay hoewife, and Jsel Taank, the first Indian hoewife, jo the diverse st tend to better reprent all of the different kds of New Yorkers. Merry is often terchangeable wh gay: a merry disposn; a merry party; suggts, even more than the latter, nvivial animated enjoyment. This sexual world clud homosexuals too, and gay as an adjective meang “homosexual” go back at least to the early 1900s.

World War II, as social attus toward sexualy began to change, gay was applied openly by homosexuals to themselv, first as an adjective and later.

5 DICTNARY ENTRI FOR "GAY"

Homosexual as a noun is sometim ed only reference to a maleMost material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Pengu Random Hoe LLC. By the 1950s gay had begun to be ed more wily among some gay people as an alternative to terms like homosexual, which was regard as more of a clil term, and queer, which often rried rogatory nnotatns (cf. It was largely the preferred term the gay liberatn movement of the late 1960s, passg subsequently om slang to general e.

Note: The adjective homosexual often appears formal wrg and medil wrg, but other suatns many people prefer to e the ls formal words gay or (for women) lbian. Note: Except when ed olr scientific or technil wrg, the noun homosexual is now nsired offensive by many people. Wh plac around the world refg tradnal marriage by legalizg gay marriage, mak sense that the Oxford English Dictnary will revise their fn.

OXFORD DICTNARY DEFN OF MARRIAGE WILL NOW INCLU GAY MARRIAGE

The world's most well-known thory on the English language will clu gay upl s fn for future edns, ncert wh Queen Elizabeth II’s cisn this month to allow same-sex upl to marry England. "We ntually monor the words our dictnari, payg particular [attentn] to those words whose age is shiftg, so y, this will happen wh marriage, " an Oxford Universy spokperson told Gay Star News.

Currently, the dictnary f the word as a "formal unn of a man and a woman, typilly as regnized by law, by which they bee hband and wife, ” but the fn also mak a reference to gay marriage, explag, uld also be "( some jurisdictns) a unn between partners of the same sex.

"It's worth potg out that, as the OED is distct om other dictnari beg a historil rerd of the language, meangs of the past will rema, even while language chang and new on are add, " the spokperson told the Gay Star News. In the Uned Stat last month, the Supreme Court clared the Defense of Marriage Act unnstutnal a 5-4 cisn that extend feral benefs to legally married gay upl.

THE OXFORD DICTNARY IS CHANGG THE DEFN OF 'MARRIAGE' TO INCLU GAY COUPL

In light of gay marriage beg legalized the UK, the Oxford English Dictnary edors are changg the fn of marriage. "We ntually monor the words our dictnari, payg particular to those words whose age is shiftg, so y, this will happen wh marriage, " an Oxford Universy Prs spokwoman told Gay Star News, which broke the story.

GAY (HOMOSEXUAL) AND GAY (HAPPY)

The French Larose dictnary changed the fn of marriage to a "solemn act between two same-sex or different-sex persons, who ci to tablish a unn" before gay marriage beme legal France back April. Pri, formerly known as Gay Pri, is a regnn of LGBTQ inty, affirmatn of equal rights, and celebratn of visibily, digny, and diversy the LGBTQ muny. While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym.

As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns. ” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs. Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men.

On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist). Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri. Queer lerally means “strange or odd om a nventnal viewpot, ” and by at least by the late 1800s, queer was ployed as a rogatory term for an effemate or gay man.

WHAT IS THE DEFN OF GAY

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. 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.

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.

2023How to e gay a sentence“I do not support gay marriag beg regnized Florida, ” he wrote Andrew Walther of man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his tratn that he and his partner of eight years were unable to gay apps, like the newer Mister, have not subscribed to the muny/tribe mol. Meanwhile, Florida, Bh was flood wh qutns about whether gay marriage uld possibly e to the Sunshe the 70s, this myth kept openly gay people out of teachg I not France—gay, lightful France—partakg of the kdns and civily of the untry?

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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.

" A spokwoman for Oxford Universy Prs nfirmed to Gay Star News' Joe Man that the fn of "marriage" will change to clu same-sex upl a future edn of the Oxford English Dictnary. Earlier this month, a group of San Francis artists llg themselv "HACKmarriage" began gog to bookstor and librari around San Francis and verg the formal fn of marriage wh a sticker featurg an amend, gay-clive versn which read, '“the formal unn of two people by which they bee partners for life.

The Vatin has said prevly that homosexualy shouldn’t rry crimal penalti, though Catholic teachg forbids homosexual acts.