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Definition: Homosexual |
HomosexualAdjective1. Sexually attracted to members of your own sex. Noun1. Someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "homosexual" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Diversity | Individuals attracted to members of one's own sex. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | Afrikaans (moffie), Arabic (mamhoon ), Dutch (reetridder ), English (arse bandit, nudger, swedish), Finnish (homo), French (grande folle , pédale, pousse-crotte, serin , tapette ), Greek (adelfi ), Hungarian (buzi), Italian (finocchio, recchione), Quebecois (fife, fifi, moumoune, moune), Spanish (marico, mayate, ninfo, quebracho, quebrachon ), Swedish (tulle, tveksamma handleder ), Swiss German (der warme). (references) |
Slang | Arse bandit, nudger, Swedish, fag, faggot, fairy, fruit, queer, sausage jockey, pillow biter, sissy, turd burglar, ass boy, assboy, bum-bandit. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: HomosexualSynonyms: gay (n), homo (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: bisexual (adj), heterosexual (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Man | Homosexual, gay, queen. |
Sexuality | Homosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Homosexual |
| English words defined with "homosexual": closet queen ♦ fag, faggot, fagot, fairy ♦ gay, gay man, gay woman ♦ heterosexism, homoerotic, homophile, homophobe, homophobia, homophobic ♦ lesbian ♦ nance ♦ pansy, poof, poove, pouf ♦ queen, queer ♦ shirtlifter, straight ♦ tribadistic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "homosexual": arse bandit ♦ bum bandit, bumbandit, bum-bandit ♦ coming out ♦ Diesel Dyke ♦ Fag Hag, fag stag, fag-hag, flamer, friends of dorothy ♦ gender mender ♦ Kool ♦ Lipstick Lesbian ♦ part of the family, pillow biter ♦ queenie ♦ sausage jockey ♦ turd burglar. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Homosexual" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (faggot, gay, homo, homosexual, Nancy, paederast, pansy, pederast, queer, sissy), Spanish (camp, fag, gay, homosexual, poof). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You know, just admitting that another man is attractive doesn't necessarily make you a homosexual. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) He wants to know if you're a homosexual. (The Talented Mr. Ripley; writing credit: Anthony Minghella) The night before the morning I decided to become a homosexual. (Victor/Victoria; writing credit: Blake Edwards; Hans Hoemburg) They say, Lisa Marie is more of a sit at home type, while Michael Jackson is more of a homosexual pedophile (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen) It's time to put the sex back in homosexual, Will (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Early Homosexual Fears (1974) David Is Homosexual (1978) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The parents of XXY boys are sometimes concerned that their sons may grow up to be homosexual. (references) | |
Behavioral risks have been identified by combining data from epidemiological studies and data from studies of homosexual and heterosexual couples with only one HIV-positive partner. (references) | ||
Business | Amnesty International cites Mexico as one of the countries in which homosexual men and women are most likely to be victims of abuse and violence. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Korea | Some homosexual groups have charged that the Government acts discriminatorily in blocking their Web sites. (references) |
Singapore | In May 2000, authorities denied approval for a forum on gays and lesbians, citing the illegality of homosexual acts. (references) | |
Sweden | In September the UNHCR criticized the Aliens Appeals Board following a decision to refuse a homosexual Iranian refugee a residence permit. (references) | |
Discrimination | Argentina | The Association Against Homosexual Discrimination filed a complaint to the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman in Cordoba regarding such treatment. (references) |
Brazil | In Sao Paulo in October, the country's first Homosexual Defender office began to function, funded in part by a grant from the federal Ministry of Justice. (references) | |
Namibia | The Government has stated publicly that the Constitution protects equal rights regardless of sexual orientation; and one binational homosexual couple was granted immigration rights. (references) | |
Human Rights | Namibia | In June SFF members beat two homosexual men on the street. (references) |
Afghanistan | The stipulated punishment for those found guilty of homosexual acts was to have walls toppled on them. (references) | |
Malaysia | One other alleged homosexual partner of Anwar's gave a consistent description of the psychological and physical abuse used by police to force similar confessions from him. (references) | |
Political Economy | Egypt | On November 14, a State Security Emergency Court sentenced 23 allegedly homosexual men to prison terms ranging from 1 to 5 years on charges including "insulting a heavenly religion" and "debauchery." The use of military courts to try civilians continued to infringe on a defendant's normal right under the Constitution to a fair trial before an independent judiciary. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Homosexual" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.23% of the time. "Homosexual" is used about 792 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.23% | 778 | 8,875 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.77% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 792 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "homosexual": homosexual-bashing, homosexual-looking, homosexual-related. | |
Ending with "homosexual": anti-homosexual, non-homosexual. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "homosexual"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | homoseksual (fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, gay, pansy), njeri homoseksual. (various references) | |
Arabic | مشته المماثل, لوطي (gay, homo, invert, paederast, pansy, pederast, ponce, poof, prostitute, queer). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хомосексуален (gay, kinky), хомосексуалист (gay, homo, invert), педераст (bugger, fag, faggot, fagot, pansy, pederast, pouf, quean, queen, queer, sod, sodomite, swish). (various references) | |
Chinese | 同性恋 (homosexuality), 同性戀 , 同性 . (various references) | |
Czech | homosexuální (gay, queer), homosexuál (gay, invert). (various references) | |
Dutch | homofiel (gay), homo (gay), flikker (gay). (various references) | |
Esperanto | gejo (gay). (various references) | |
Farsi | مایل به جنس خود, همجنس باز, دارای احساسات جنسی نسبت به جنس موافق . (various references) | |
French | homosexuel, pédéraste, pédé (homo), inverti (homo). (various references) | |
Frisian | homofyl (gay). (various references) | |
German | homosexuell (gay). (various references) | |
Greek | φιλομόφυλοσ, ελκυομένοσ από το ίδιο φύλο, αρσενοκοίτησ (pansy, sodomite), ομοφυλόφιλοσ (faggot, poof). (various references) | |
Hebrew | הומוסקסואלי (fairy, gay, queer), סדומאי (bugger, pederast, sodomise, sodomite). (various references) | |
Hungarian | homoszexuális (campy, gay, invert, pederast, poovey, poovy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | homoseks (lesbian, queer). (various references) | |
Italian | omosessuale (queer). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 同性愛者 , ブリッジ回路 (bloomers, blue, blue backs, Blue Bird, blue book, blue boy, blue chip, blue day, blue film, Blue Impulse, blue Monday, Blue Ribbon, blue sex, blue train, blueberry, blue-black, blue-collar worker, blueglass, blues, bourgeois, bourgeoisie, bridge circuit, brilliant, brilliant cut, British Airways, British Columbia, broom, Brussels, Bulgaria, bull, Burkina Faso, childpornography), shops where girls' uniforms and underwear are resold to dirty old men, sleeping train), ホッパー車 (hobby, hobby craft, Hoffmann, homo, Homo economicus, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, Homo ludens, Homo movens, Homo sapiens, homogenize, homophony, Honolulu, hop, hopper car, hops, hotel, photo multiplier, pogo stick). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ブルーボーイ (blue boy), ブルーセッカス (blue sex), ホモセクシャル , どうせいあいしゃ. (various references) | |
Korean | 동성애 (homosexuality). (various references) | |
Manx | homocheintysagh, homocheintagh. (various references) | |
Papiamen | mariku (gay), mariko (gay). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omosexualhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | homossexual (effeminate, gay, invert, kiss-me-quick, pansy). (various references) | |
Romanian | homosexual (faggot, gay, homo, Nancy, paederast, pansy, pederast, queer, sissy). (various references) | |
Russian | гомосексуальный (gay, queer), гомосексуалист гомосексуальный, гомосексуалист (sodomite). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | homoseksualan (queer), homoseksualac (fag, fairy, gay, pansy, queen, queer), peder (gay). (various references) | |
Spanish | homosexual (camp, fag, gay, poof). (various references) | |
Swedish | homosexuell (gay). (various references) | |
Turkish | homoseksüel (camp, fruit, gay, homo, homoerotic, homophile, invert, pederast, poof, queen, queer, sod, sodomite, swish), eşcinsel (camp, gay, homo, homoerotic, invert, inverted, queer). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гомосексуальний (pansy, sodomitical), гомосексуаліст (pansy, queer, sodomite). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tình dục đồng giới. (various references) | |
Welsh | hoyw (alert, bright, gay, lively, spritely). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "homosexual": homosexualities, homosexuality, homosexually, homosexuals. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "homosexual": antihomosexual, nonhomosexual. (additional references) | |
Words containing "homosexual": nonhomosexuals. (additional references) | |
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"Homosexual" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hhomosexual, homesexual, homoseaxual, homosextual, homosexua, honosexual. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "homosexual" (pronounced hō'mōse"kshuwul) |
| 9 | -ō s e" k sh u w u l | heterosexual. |
| 4 | -u w u l | individual, actual, casual, spiritual, textual, mutual, perceptual, semiannual, sensual, unusual, usual, visual. |
| 3 | -w u l | bilingual, coequal, equal, monolingual, multilingual, sequel, tranquil, unequal. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-l-m-o-o-s-u-x" | |
-2 letters: hamulose. | |
-3 letters: homosex, moolahs. | |
-4 letters: almehs, amoles, haloes, haoles, haulms, hoaxes, housel, lehuas, mahoes, mohels, moolah, moolas, oleums, osmole, sexual, shalom, sholom, ulemas. | |
-5 letters: almeh, almes, aloes, alums, amole, amuse, axels, axles, exams, haems, hales, halms, halos, hames, haole, haulm, hauls, heals, helms, helos, hemal, holes, holms, homes, homos, hosel, house, hulas, lames, leash. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-l-m-o-o-s-u-x" | |
+1 letter: homosexuals. | |
+2 letters: homosexually. | |
+3 letters: homosexuality, nonhomosexual. | |
+4 letters: antihomosexual, nonhomosexuals. | |
+5 letters: homosexualities. | |
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