Gay: Definition and part of speech

Gay

  1. n. An ornament
  2. superl. Excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry.
  3. superl. Brilliant in colors; splendid; fine; richly dressed.
  4. superl. Loose; dissipated; lewd.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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