An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person. / A female given name from English from the word gay, "joyful"; rare today.

(LGBT, slang) An A-list gay; an affluent, well-connected, upwardly mobile gay man or woman.

(of a person) Possessing sexual and/or romantic attraction towards people one perceives to be the same sex or gender as oneself. / (strictly) Describing a homosexual man.

(now chiefly in the plural) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual. / (dialectal, obsolete) Something which is bright or colorful, such as a picture or a flower.

(transitive, dated, uncommon) To make happy or cheerful. / (transitive, uncommon) To cause (something, e.g. AIDS) to be associated with homosexual people.

(Scotland, Northern England) Considerably, very.

The letter —, which stands for the sound /ɡ/, in Pitman shorthand.

simple past tense and past participle of gay

plural of gay

plural of A-gay