Originally Psychology and Psychoanalysis. Designating sexual feelings, other psychological characteristics, or behaviour displayed by a person of one…

Homosexual; pederastic; spec. (of poetry) expressing an admiration for male youth. Cf. uranism, n. Now chiefly historical.

Sexually or romantically attracted to, or engaging in sexual activity with, people of one's own sex.

Homosexual; esp. designating homosexual love or attraction.

Homosexual, gay; (also and in earliest use) of, relating to, or popular with, gay people. Chiefly Australian and New Zealand in later use. Now…

Homosexual.

colloquial (originally U.S.). Of a person: homosexual (frequently derogatory and offensive). In later use: denoting or relating to a sexual or…

Of a person: having sexual or romantic attraction to, or engaging in sexual activity with, people of one's own sex; homosexual. Also (and now more…

Homosexual, gay; of or relating to homosexual people or homosexuality. Now somewhat dated or humorous.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of homosexual people (esp. men); characterized by homosexuality; (of a person) homosexual, gay.

slang (originally and chiefly North American). derogatory and offensive. Designating a homosexual man; characteristic or reminiscent of the…

colloquial (usually derogatory and offensive). Effeminate, sissyish. Also occasionally, of a man: homosexual. Now rare.

Of, characteristic of, or associated with homosexual people, esp. men. Of a person, esp. a man: homosexual. Also more generally of any man, esp…

Originally U.S. slang. (a) Of a person: homosexual; (b) (of a place, milieu, way of life, etc.) of or relating to homosexual people.

As adj. slang. Homosexual. Obsolete.

spec. Designating romantic or sexual attraction or relationships between people of the same sex; of or relating to such relationships; homosexual…

Of a man: homosexual. Also: effeminate. Cf. faggoty, adj. 2.

slang (frequently derogatory and offensive). Homosexual.

euphemistic. Homosexual. Cf. that way inclined at sense A. 13b.

figurative indicating the content or nature of a person's opinions, preferences, talents, etc., or the direction of a course of events or likely…

slang (frequently derogatory and offensive). Homosexual.

Homosexual; esp. (of a man) conspicuously displaying or affecting female mannerisms, etc.

colloquial. Of a man: homosexual. Hence also: of or relating to homosexuals or homosexuality. Cf. lavender, n.2 adj.additions.

Applied attributively to people who frequently wear leather clothing, esp. (originally) bikers and (in later use) homosexual people, and to their…