Transvestite Definition

trăns-vĕstīt, trănz-
transvestites
noun
transvestites
A person who adopts the clothing and deportment regarded as typical of the opposite sex.
Webster's New World
A person with transvestism.
American Heritage Medicine
A cross-dresser. In this sense, the term is sometimes considered offensive.
American Heritage Medicine
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Noun

Singular:
transvestite
Plural:
transvestites

Origin of Transvestite

  • Latin trans- + vestite, form of vestiō (“I clothe, I dress") (as in English vestment, vest). Literally, a "cross-dresser".

    From Wiktionary

  • German Transvestit Latin trāns- trans- Latin vestīre to dress travesty

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Transvestite Sentence Examples

  • Let's hope Mel Gibson doesn't become a transvestite in his next movie!

  • One would expect little less from Britain ' s first gay socialist transvestite poet and radical agenda bender.

  • She is considered the first transvestite supermodel, and anyone who has seen her will never forget her.

  • He soon landed a few more small movie parts, all of which brought him to a recurring role on Twin Peaks as transvestite DEA agent Denise.

  • Let 's hope Mel Gibson does n't become a transvestite in his next movie !

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