"cross-dress" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈkɹɔsˈdɹɛs/ [US], /ˈkɹɒsˈdɹɛs/ [US] Forms: cross-dresses [present, singular, third-person], cross-dressing [participle, present], cross-dressed [participle, past], cross-dressed [past]
Etymology: From cross- + dress. Etymology templates: {{af|en|cross-|dress}} cross- + dress Head templates: {{en-verb}} cross-dress (third-person singular simple present cross-dresses, present participle cross-dressing, simple past and past participle cross-dressed)
  1. To wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex. Categories (topical): Crossdressing Translations (to wear clothes of the opposite sex): 扮裝 (Chinese Mandarin), 扮装 (bànzhuāng) (Chinese Mandarin), 變裝 (Chinese Mandarin), 变装 (biànzhuāng) (Chinese Mandarin), 異裝 (Chinese Mandarin), 异装 (yìzhuāng) (Chinese Mandarin), 易裝 (Chinese Mandarin), 易装 (yìzhuāng) (Chinese Mandarin), 反串 (fǎnchuàn) (note: in a theatrical performance) (Chinese Mandarin), 男裝 (Chinese Mandarin), 男装 (nánzhuāng) (english: cross-dress as a man) (Chinese Mandarin), 女裝 (Chinese Mandarin), 女装 (nǚzhuāng) (Chinese Mandarin), pukeutua ristiin (Finnish), trasghléas (Irish), 男装する (dansō suru) (english: cross-dress as a man) (alt: だんそうする) (Japanese), 女装する (josō suru) (english: cross-dress as a woman) (alt: じょそうする) (Japanese), przebierać się [imperfective] (Polish), переодева́ться (pereodevátʹsja) (alt: в мужчи́ну OR в же́нщину) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-cross-dress-en-verb-K4NNgFHW Disambiguation of Crossdressing: 68 32 Categories (other): English terms prefixed with cross- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with cross-: 48 52 Disambiguation of 'to wear clothes of the opposite sex': 93 7
  2. (immunology) To display (on the surface of a dendritic cell) antigens produced by a different cell. Categories (topical): Immunology
    Sense id: en-cross-dress-en-verb-tsyGmG3y Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms prefixed with cross-, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 88 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 17 83 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with cross-: 48 52 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 21 79 Topics: immunology, medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: transvest [formal], crossdress, xdress [abbreviation] Derived forms: cross-dresser, cross-dressing

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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