heterosexualhet‧e‧ro‧sex‧u‧al /ˌhetərəˈsekʃuəl◂/ ●○○ adjective 
Examples
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- Most of the people who come to the club are heterosexual, but we do get a small number of gay men.
- The law applies to both heterosexual and homosexual employees.
- And it appears that the aggregate number of partners in heterosexual adultery is quite low.
- Despite public perceptions, across the world 7 out of 10 infections are heterosexual.
- Feminist psychologists often adopt an implicitly biological standard of heterosexual normality.
- Name one heterosexual male theorist who could display such interest in wrestling, washing powders and Greta Garbo.
- Our national women youth workers' conferences were widely successful with heterosexual women.
- Perhaps there was still a chance; perhaps Ronnie would find she wasn't meant for heterosexual love.
- The fact that I am a heterosexual woman never mattered.
- They coped by forming close relationships with a heterosexual partner or a group of women.
Longman Language Activatornot gay► heterosexual
Collocations sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex - use this especially when you are also talking about gay people: · Most of the people who come to the club are heterosexual, but we do get a small number of gay men.· The law applies to both heterosexual and homosexual employees.
► straight not gay - use this especially when you are comparing people who are not gay with people who are: · Straight men often feel nervous in the company of gays.· She's straight but she's got a lot of lesbian friends.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► heterosexual hetero-
sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex SYN straight → bisexual, homosexual (=attracted to the opposite sex)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► couple· What indeed are the repercussions of establishing the two-parent, heterosexual couple as the only legitimate model of parenthood?
► man· In addition, it is an unfortunate fact that some gay men are paedophiles, however few in comparison with heterosexual men.· Until 1989, most cases where white gay men, but the majority are now black heterosexual men.
► relationship· Gummer calls for the reassertion of the importance and centrality of the religiously sanctioned, monogamous heterosexual relationship to our culture.· From the safety of my heterosexual relationship I wore my Gaysoc badge out on the streets.
► woman· Our national women youth workers' conferences were widely successful with heterosexual women.· The fact that I am a heterosexual woman never mattered.· Fat lesbians and fat heterosexual women may experience fat oppression in different ways, but it is present for both.· Yet lesbian subjects may be more different from each other than they are from many heterosexual women.· Many heterosexual women stayed away specifically because there would be out lesbians there.· As in egalitarian feminist psychology, white, middle-class, middle-aged, heterosexual women are the main subjects of woman-centred psychology.· Any time left over was spent on the heterosexism we were experiencing from heterosexual women at the conferences.· Women, even heterosexual women in his family, are given no real voice at all.