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Heterosexual vs Gay - What's the difference?

heterosexual | gay |

As nouns the difference between heterosexual and gay

is that heterosexual is heterosexual while gay is nape.

As a verb gay is

to crow.

heterosexual

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (lb) Sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex.

    • Synonyms

    * (sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex) (l), (l),

    Hyponyms

    * heteroflexible

    Coordinate terms

    * * heteroromantic

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A heterosexual person, or other heterosexual organism.

    • Synonyms

    * (heterosexual person) (l) (especially in the plural), (l), (l)

    Antonyms

    * homosexual

    gay

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.
  • from the word gay, "joyful"; rare today.
  • . Also a shortened form of Gabriel, Gaylord and similar names, or transferred from the surname.
  • * 1992 , Unto the Sons , Ballantine Books 1993, ISBN 0804110336, page 15
    • - - - my father's father, Gaetano Talese ( whose name I inherited after my birth in 1932, in the anglicized from of "Gay "), was an atypically fearless traveler,
  • * 2004 , Bad Dirt , Fourth Estate, ISBN 0007196911, page 32
    • "Mr Gay Brawls. What a name."
    "It didn't use to mean what it means now. Plenty were named Gay'. Even in Nevada. Was old ' Gay Pitch had a gas station in Winnemucca. Nobody thought nothin about it and he raised a railroad car of kids.- - -

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