GAY | English meang - Cambridge Dictnary

Contents:

• GAY
• GAYER
• GAYER MEANG
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• GAYER FN, GAYER MEANG | ENGLISH DICTNARY

GAY

The Queens' English, The LGBTQIA+ Dictnary of Lgo and Colloquial Phras celebrat the etymologil diversy of over eight hundred terms ed to scribe our llective gay and queer experience. This dictnary officially ho the language of the lbian, bisexual, gay, transgenr, two-spir, queer, qutng, tersex, asexual, nonbary, genr nonnformg, and non-heteronormative — Commonly abbreviated as LGBTQIA+ — muni the Uned Stat of Ameri. Given to social pleasur, pecially at the expense of ser pursus: "You know she is gay, and wild, lov pany and mirth, and that was her impatience of rtrat the thgs, that ma the breach between her and her father" (Daniel Defoe).

]gay′ns Note: The word gay is now standard s e to refer to people whose sexual orientatn is to the same sex, large part bee is the term that most gay people prefer referrg to themselv. When the tend meang is not ntextually evint, the phras gay and lbian or lbian and gay are monly ed. Gay is generally nsired objectnable when ed as a noun to refer to particular dividuals, as There were two gays on the panel; here phrasg such as Two members of the panel were gay is preferable.

But there is no objectn to the e of the noun the plural to refer llectively eher to gay men or to gay men and lbians, so long as is clear whether men alone or both men and women are beg discsed. [C13: om Old French gai, om Old Provençal, of Germanic orig]ˈgayns nUsage: Gayns is the word ed to refer to homosexualy.

GAYER

The noun which refers to beg reee and merry is gaietyGay (ɡeɪ) n (Bgraphy) John. 1685–1732, English poet and dramatist; thor of The Beggar's Opera (1728)Colls English Dictnary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edn 2014 © HarperColls Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014gay (geɪ) adj., -er, -t, n., adv. [1275–1325; < Old French < Germanic; pare Old High German gāhi fast, sudn] gay′ns, n.

Gay was applied openly by homosexuals to themselv, first as adjective and later as noun. All rights morn English, if you say that a person is gay, you mean that they are homosexual.

GAYER MEANG

A homosexual man n be referred to as a gays were worried about the new is sometim ed to scribe lours, plac, or piec of mic which make people feel cheerful bee they are bright or lively. ThsAntonymsRelated - someone who practic homosexualy; havg a sexual attractn to persons of the same sexhomo, homophile, homosexualdividual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human beg; "there was too much for one person to do"gay man - a homosexual mangay woman, triba - a female - bright and pleasant; promotg a feelg of cheer; "a cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny se"cheery, sunnycheerful - beg full of or promotg cheer; havg or showg good spirs; "her cheerful nature"; "a cheerful greetg"; "a cheerful room"; "as cheerful as anyone nfed to a hospal bed uld be" - full of or showg high-spired merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet uld not but be gay, such a jocund pany"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the rnn"; "jolly old Sat Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry lghter"; "a mirthful lgh"jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthfuljoyo - full of or characterized by joy; "felt a joyo abandon"; "joyo lghter" - given to social pleasur often cludg dissipatn; "led a gay Bohemian life"; "a gay old rogue wh an eye for the ladi"dulgent - characterized by or given to yieldg to the wish of someone; "dulgent grandparents" - brightly lored and showy; "girls cked out brave new drs"; "brave banners flyg"; "`braw' is a Sttish word"; "a drs a b too gay for her years"; "birds wh gay plumage"braw, bravelourful, lorful - strikg variety and tert; "a lorful perd of history"; "a lorful character"; "lorful language" - offerg fun and gaiety; "a ftive (or ftal) ocsn"; "gay and excg night life"; "a merry eveng"ftal, ftive, merryjoyo - full of or characterized by joy; "felt a joyo abandon"; "joyo lghter" - homosexual or arog homosexual sirhomophile, queerBased on WordNet 3. Homosexual, mp (rmal), lbian, pk (rmal), bent (offensive slang), queer (rmal, rogatory), same-sex, sapphic, dykey (slang), poofy (offensive slang), moffie (S.

Cheerful, happy, bright, glad, lively, sparklg, sunny, jolly, animated, merry, upbeat (rmal), buoyant, cheery, joyo, joyful, reee, jnty, chirpy (rmal), vivac, jovial, gleeful, bonair, blhe, souciant, full of beans (rmal), light-hearted I am good health, gay and cheerful. Lourful, rich, bright, brilliant, vivid, flamboyant, flashy, gdy, garish, showy I like gay, vibrant posters. Homosexual, lbian, fairy (slang), queer (rmal, rogatory), faggot (slang, chiefly U.

Rogatory slang), batty boy (slang), bull dyke (slang), shirt-lifter (rogatory slang), dyke or dike (slang) Gays have proved themselv to be style lears. Homosexual straight, heterosexualUsage: By far the most mon and up-to-date e of the word gay is reference to beg homosexual.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

Translatnsزاهٍلواطيلواطي، أحادي الجنسمَرِح، جَذِلбезгриженвеселхомосексуаленшаренhomosexuálhomosexuálníjásavýptrývelýbøssefarvtrålengladhomoseksuellbisk kvgajasamseksemaeläväenhilpeähomohomoseksuaaleniloenboldogmelegkátur, glaîværlskrúîugursamkynhneigîurgėjhomoseksualistashomoseksualistųhomoseksualjtrskošspriecīgsspilgtshomoseksualenvelgaygladhomohomosexuellltiggay [geɪ]A. 1971, 1988 © HarperColls Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005gay [ˈgeɪ] adj(old-fashned) (= cheerful) → gai(e) [lour] → gai(e)Colls English/French Electronic Rource.

© HarperColls Publishers 2005gay adj (+er)(= homosexual) person → schwul (f); (= for homosexuals) rights → für Schwule; sex → unter Schwulen; gay men and women → Schwule und Lben pl (f); gay movement → Schwulenbewegung f; gay bar → Schwulenkneipe f; gay marriage → gleichgchlechtliche Ehe, Homoehe f (f); gay group → Schwulengppe f; the gay muny → die Schwulen pl n → Schwule(r) mf; gay lib → die SchwulenbewegungColls German Dictnary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edn 2005. 1980 © HarperColls Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007gay [geɪ]1.

GAYER FN, GAYER MEANG | ENGLISH DICTNARY

N (homosexual) → gay mColls Italian Dictnary 1st Edn © HarperColls Publishers 1995gay (gei) adjective1. English-Spanish Medil Dictnary © Farlex 2012gay adj & n gay mf, homosexual mf, (female) lbianaEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medil Dictnary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Compani, Inc. 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. Given to or aboundg social or other pleasur: a gay social season; the Gay Use.

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. Today, the noun often signat only gay men and is ually ed as a llective plural: gays and lbians.

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.