Homo-

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Homo- \Ho"mo-\
     A combining form from Gr. "omo`s, one and the same, common,
     joint.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  homo
       n 1: someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual
            attraction to persons of the same sex [syn: {homosexual},
             {gay}]
       2: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae [syn: {man},
           {human being}, {human}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "homo":
     Adam, Adamite, Hominidae, Homo sapiens, auntie, being, bi-guy,
     bisexual, body, bull dyke, butch, cat, catamite, chap, character,
     chicken, clay, creature, customer, duck, dyke, earthling, fag,
     faggot, fairy, fallen humanity, fellow, femme, flesh, flit,
     fricatrice, fruit, generation of man, genus Homo, groundling,
     gunsel, guy, hand, head, hominid, homophile, homosexual,
     homosexualist, human, human being, human family, human nature,
     human race, human species, humanity, humankind, individual, invert,
     joker, le genre humain, lesbian, life, living soul, man, mankind,
     mortal, mortal flesh, mortality, mortals, nance, nose, one, pansy,
     party, pathic, person, personage, personality, punk, queen, queer,
     race of man, sapphist, single, somebody, someone, soul, tellurian,
     terran, tribade, worldling
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  HOMO. This Latin word, in its most enlarged sense, includes both man and 
  woman. 2 Inst. 45. Vide Man.