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gay

  • adjective
  • gā

Only possessing sexual and/or romantic attraction towards people one perceives to be the same sex or gender as oneself. from 1950

Other meanings

  1. Of a man, only romantically and/or sexually attracted to other men.

  2. Tending to partner or mate with other individuals of the same sex.

Word history

From Old French "jai".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “gay” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.