verb
Meaning 1
To wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
cross-dress
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Pronunciation
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US: /ˈkɹɔsˈdɹɛs/
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US: /ˈkɹɒsˈdɹɛs/
verb
Meaning 2
To display (on the surface of a dendritic cell) antigens produced by a different cell.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: immunology, medicine, sciences
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Meaning relationships
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verb
Meaning 3
dress in the clothes of the other sex
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Broader terms: dress, get dressed
History
Etymology
From cross- + dress.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 扮裝 /扮装 (bànzhuāng) — to wear clothes of the opposite sex
- Chinese Mandarin: 變裝 /变装 (biànzhuāng) — to wear clothes of the opposite sex
- Chinese Mandarin: 異裝 /异装 (yìzhuāng) — to wear clothes of the opposite sex
- Chinese Mandarin: 易裝 /易装 (yìzhuāng) — to wear clothes of the opposite sex
- Chinese Mandarin: 反串 (fǎnchuàn) — to wear clothes of the opposite sex
- Chinese Mandarin: 男裝 /男装 (nánzhuāng) — to wear clothes of the opposite sex
- Chinese Mandarin: 女裝 /女装 (nǚzhuāng) — to wear clothes of the opposite sex
- Finnish: pukeutua ristiin — to wear clothes of the opposite sex
- Irish: trasghléas — to wear clothes of the opposite sex
- Japanese: 男装する (dansō suru) — to wear clothes of the opposite sex
- Japanese: 女装する (josō suru) — to wear clothes of the opposite sex
- Polish: przebierać się w odzież płci przeciwnej — to wear clothes of the opposite sex
- Polish: przebrać się w odzież płci przeciwnej — to wear clothes of the opposite sex
- Portuguese: travestir — to wear clothes of the opposite sex
- Portuguese: transvestir — to wear clothes of the opposite sex
- Russian: переодева́ться (pereodevátʹsja) — to wear clothes of the opposite sex