Meanings
plural cross-dressers · alternative crossdresser · alternative xdresser
- A person who wears clothing which society considers appropriate only for members of the opposite sex.
1 more example
For the buildings John uses plastic sheeting employed in the window banners of a particular ladies' clothing chain. [...] I asked John if the sales assistants in those shops thought he was odd, walking in and asking for bits of plastic. 'What you've got to remember,' he said, 'is that they get a lot of cross-dressers going in there, so I'm not that weird in comparison.'
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 268Synonyms: x-dresser, CD, CDer, XD, transvestite
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA person who wears clothing which society considers appropriate only for members of the opposite sex.
More synonyms by meaning
nounsomeone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian травестит
- травестит (travestit)person who wears clothing considered appropriate only for the opposite sex — see also transvestite
Dutch travestiet
- travestietperson who wears clothing considered appropriate only for the opposite sex — see also transvestite
Esperanto transvestanto
- transvestantoperson who wears clothing considered appropriate only for the opposite sex — see also transvestite
Finnish ristiinpukeutuja
- ristiinpukeutujaperson who wears clothing considered appropriate only for the opposite sex — see also transvestite
French travesti, travelo
- travestiperson who wears clothing considered appropriate only for the opposite sex — see also transvestite
- traveloperson who wears clothing considered appropriate only for the opposite sex — see also transvestite
Polish transwestyta, transwestytka
- transwestytaperson who wears clothing considered appropriate only for the opposite sex — see also transvestite
- transwestytkaperson who wears clothing considered appropriate only for the opposite sex — see also transvestite
Portuguese travesti
- travestiperson who wears clothing considered appropriate only for the opposite sex — see also transvestite
Romanian travestit
- travestitperson who wears clothing considered appropriate only for the opposite sex — see also transvestite
Russian кроссдре́ссер
- кроссдре́ссер (krossdrésser)person who wears clothing considered appropriate only for the opposite sex — see also transvestite
Spanish travesti, travestí
- travestiperson who wears clothing considered appropriate only for the opposite sex — see also transvestite
- travestíperson who wears clothing considered appropriate only for the opposite sex — see also transvestite
- travestidoperson who wears clothing considered appropriate only for the opposite sex — see also transvestite
- travestistaperson who wears clothing considered appropriate only for the opposite sex — see also transvestite
- transvestiperson who wears clothing considered appropriate only for the opposite sex — see also transvestite
- trasvestiperson who wears clothing considered appropriate only for the opposite sex — see also transvestite
- trasvestistaperson who wears clothing considered appropriate only for the opposite sex — see also transvestite
Cite this entry
cross-dresser. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cross-dresser
“cross-dresser.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cross-dresser. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cross-dresser,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cross-dresser.
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