English
Noun
the opposite sex
- Women in relation to men or men in relation to women.
- (attributively) Heterosexual, or otherwise relating to a relationship between a woman and a man.
The divorce rate for opposite sex marriages is increasing.
He doesn't believe opposite sex friendships are possible.
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Translations
the other gender to which one is referring
- Arabic: الْجِنْس الْآخَر m (al-jins al-ʔāḵar)
- Belarusian: супрацьле́глы пол m (supracʹljéhly pol)
- Bulgarian: противополо́жен пол m (protivopolóžen pol)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 異性 / 异性 (zh) (yìxìng)
- Czech: opačné pohlaví n
- Danish: modsatte køn n
- Dutch: andere geslacht n
- Estonian: astassugupool
- Finnish: vastakkainen sukupuoli
- French: sexe opposé m
- Galician: sexo contrario
- German: anderes Geschlecht n
- Italian: sesso opposto m
- Japanese: 異性 (ja) (いせい, isei)
- Korean: 이성(異性) (ko) (iseong)
- Macedonian: спро́тивен пол m (sprótiven pol)
- Persian: جنس مخالف (jens-e moxâlef)
- Polish: płeć przeciwna f
- Portuguese: sexo oposto m
- Russian: противополо́жный пол (ru) m (protivopolóžnyj pol)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: супротни пол m
- Roman: suprotni pol m
- Slovak: opačné pohlavie n
- Slovene: nasprotni spol m
- Spanish: sexo opuesto m
- Swedish: motsatt kön n
- Thai: เพศตรงข้าม (pâyt dtrong kâam)
- Turkish: karşı cins
- Ukrainian: протиле́жна стать f (protyléžna statʹ)
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