American English pronunciation
How to pronounce homosexual
IPA transcription: [,hoʊmoʊ'sɛkʃuəl]
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Noun
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someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex
Adjective
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sexually attracted to members of your own sex
Usage examples
- My husband revealed he was homosexual.
- Bayer tells us that Spitzer had never even published a paper on homosexuality.
- This was at a time when homosexual relationships had not yet gained public acceptance.
- Sadat is considered to have broken the taboos on cross-dressing and homosexuality in Afghanistan.
- Two non-homosexual male-to-female transsexuals expressed regrets.
- For a time, he was a vice-president of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality.
- It described his analysis of a melancholy Danish count who was homosexual.
- My husband revealed he was homosexual.
- The sexual orientation of the individual members cannot be divorced from the homosexual couple.
- Their double act contained double entendres and Polari, the homosexual argot.