Meaning

3 senses
  1. (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

  2. 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.

  3. (dated)An animal that engages in sexual mimicry.

More definitions
  • someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex

Examples

5 sentences
  1. It still happens that people confuse transgender people and transvestites.

    deEs passiert immer noch, dass Leute Transvestiten und Transgender verwechseln.

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  2. She's being stalked by a transvestite man.

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  3. To this day, there is still confusion between transvestites and transsexuals.

    deEs kommt bis heute immer noch zu Verwechslungen zwischen Transvestiten und Transsexuellen.

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  4. Pepsi is a transvestite.

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  5. He's not a transvestite.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
cross-dresser — see also cross-dresser:
Deutsch
cross-dresser — see also cross-dresser:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin trāns + vestītus, form of vestiō (“to clothe, to dress”) (as in Englis

Borrowed 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
Singulartransvestite
Pluraltransvestites

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex:cross-dresser

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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