Meaning

5 senses

  1. (in the plural)A homosexual, especially a male homosexual.

    Homosexueller, Schwuler, Homo

    гейgej, гомосексуали́стgomosɛksualíst, гомосексуа́лgomosɛksuál

    ґейgej

  2. (derogatory, informal, ironic, often)Gayness: the quality of being gay.

    Anti-gay persecution holds that you can pray the gay out of a person, or scare it out of them, or cajole it out of them.

  3. The letter —, which stands for the sound /ɡ/, in Pitman shorthand.

  4. (dialectal, obsolete)Something which is bright or colorful, such as a picture or a flower.

  5. (obsolete)An ornament, a knick-knack.

More definitions
  • someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex

Examples

439 sentences

  1. Is the club gay or straight?

    Це клуб для ґеїв чи для натуралів? — aandrusiak

    ruЭто клуб для геев или для натуралов? — aandrusiak

    shekitten · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · B1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  2. You didn't know Tom was gay?

    Ти не знав, що Том ґей? — deniko

    ruТы не знал, что Том гей? — marafon

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  3. There are no gay people here.

    Тут немає гомосексуалістів. — deniko

    ruЗдесь нет гомосексуалов. — odexed

    deEs gibt hier keine schwulen Leute. — Naina

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  4. I'm not gay, but my boyfriend is.

    Я не ґей, а от мій бойфренд — так. — deniko

    ruЯ не гей, но мой парень — да. — savella

    deIch bin nicht schwul, aber mein Freund schon. — Sudajaengi

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  5. Do you know of any gay clubs?

    Ви знаєте якийсь ґей-клуб? — aandrusiak

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
homosexual person, especially male — see also lesbian, homosexual, fairy, fag, poof, bender, bugger:
Русский
By meaning 1
homosexual person, especially male — see also lesbian, homosexual, fairy, fag, poof, bender, bugger:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
homosexual person, especially male — see also lesbian, homosexual, fairy, fag, poof, bender, bugger:

Origin

From Middle English gay, from Old French gai (“joyful, laughing, merry”), usually thought

From Middle English gay, from Old French gai (“joyful, laughing, merry”), usually thought to be a borrowing of Old Occitan gai (“impetuous, lively”), from Gothic *𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌴𐌹𐍃 (*gaheis, “impetuous”), merging with earlier Old French jai ("merry"; see jay), from Frankish *gāhi; both from Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudden”). This is possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ- (“to stride, step”), from *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”), but Kroonen rejects this derivation and treats the Germanic word as having no known etymology.

From Pitman kay, which it is derived from graphically, and the sound it represents. The traditional name gee was considered inappropriate, as the Pitman letter never has the sound of that name.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: gays
Singulargay
Pluralgays

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
homosexual person and Thesaurus:male homosexual
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
RelatedgeeB1
Derivednosegay

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
gawkgawpgaydargazeB2gazebo

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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