transvestite
A person who sometimes wears clothes traditionally worn by and associated with the…A person who sometimes wears clothes traditionally worn by and associated with the opposite sex; typically a male who cross-dresses occasionally by habit or personal choice.
» It still happens that people confuse transgender people and transvestites.
Es passiert immer noch, dass Leute Transvestiten und Transgender verwechseln.
Meaning
3 senses(dated)A person who sometimes wears clothes traditionally worn by and associated with the opposite sex; typically a male who cross-dresses occasionally by habit or personal choice.
Even though Steven used to dress up in his sister's clothes, it still came as a surprise he ended up as a transvestite.
Transvestit, Transvestitin, Transe
трансвести́тtransvestít
A person, typically a heterosexual male, who compulsively seeks and derives paraphilic sexual arousal from cross-dressing, especially if the urges and behavior cause the patient distress or social impairment.
(dated)An animal that engages in sexual mimicry.
- someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex
Examples
5 sentencesIt still happens that people confuse transgender people and transvestites.
deEs passiert immer noch, dass Leute Transvestiten und Transgender verwechseln.
She's being stalked by a transvestite man.
To this day, there is still confusion between transvestites and transsexuals.
deEs kommt bis heute immer noch zu Verwechslungen zwischen Transvestiten und Transsexuellen.
Pepsi is a transvestite.
He's not a transvestite.
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
Borrowed from Latin trāns + vestītus, form of vestiō (“to clothe, to dress”) (as in EnglisBorrowed from Latin trāns + vestītus, form of vestiō (“to clothe, to dress”) (as in English vestment, vest). Literally, a "cross-dresser". From transvestitism, from German Transvestitismus, coined in 1910 by Magnus Hirschfeld (the practice itself is much older).
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Forms
plural: transvestites| Singular | transvestite |
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Synonyms
4 synonyms- someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex:cross-dresser