Usually means: Attracted to the opposite gender.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word heterosexual:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. heterosexual: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. heterosexual: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heterosexual: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heterosexual: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heterosexual: Vocabulary.com
  6. Heterosexual, heterosexual: Wordnik
  7. heterosexual: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. heterosexual: Wiktionary
  9. heterosexual: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. heterosexual: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. heterosexual: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. heterosexual: Dictionary.com
  13. heterosexual (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. heterosexual: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Heterosexual: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. heterosexual: Rhymezone
  17. heterosexual, heterosexual: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. heterosexual: Free Dictionary
  19. heterosexual: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. heterosexual: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heterosexual: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Heterosexual: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Heterosexual: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. heterosexual: Medical dictionary
  6. Heterosexual: Drug Medical Dictionary
  7. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. GLBT DICTIONARY (No longer online)

(Note: See heterosexuality as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of a person or other animal) Sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex.
adjective:  (of a romantic or sexual act or relationship) Between two people of different sex.
adjective:  (obsolete, medicine) Having a sexual desire for the opposite sex seen as unhealthy, including a proclivity for nonreproductive sex.
noun:  A heterosexual person, or other heterosexual organism.

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