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LGBT

LGBT

77 3.5
A group of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender
  • noun
  • /ˌɛlˌdʒiːˌbiːˈtiː/
translation icon : LGBT
  • Security forces should be held accountable for targeting LGBT people online and offline.
  • LGBT community
  • LGBT people
  • discrimination against LGBT

We're going to exempt LGBT women and immigrant women.

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Examples

  • Eventually, Rie grew confident enough to share her songs with her friends, family, and the LGBT community.

    Academic text (2013)

  • The EEOC's decisions in Macy and Foxx provide a vital lifeline to the struggling LGBT workforce.

    Academic text (2017)

  • We live in a world where being LGBT is still seen as other.

  • The online survey allowed me to reach a wide range of LGBT individuals in Japan.

    Academic text (2018)

  • And now acceptance of LGBT people is going down.

  • That book got an award from an LGBT literary association.

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  • The case presented a legal conflict between LGBT rights and religious liberty.

    Academic text (2018)

  • I joined the LGBT knitting community five years ago... and I cannot imagine my life without it now.

    Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015)

  • Japanese society has its own cultural configuration that discriminates against the LGBT community.

    Academic text (2018)

  • The online survey allowed me to reach a wide range of LGBT individuals in Japan.

Synonyms

LGBTQ
vsLGBT
1 3.5

A group of people who are not straight or whose gender is different from their sex at birth

refers mainly to four specific identities and only sometimes includes others
LGBTQ+ community
vsLGBT
3.0

A group of people with different sexual and gender identities like lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender

names a four-letter initialism that focuses on core identities rather than the whole group

How Inclusive

LGBT+
4.4
LGBTQ
1 3.5
LGBT
77 3.5
LGB
2 4.8
gay
265 3.3

Surface Forms

LGBT singular
LGBTs plural

Morphology

LGBT = L + G + B + T

This is an initialism: the letter components are not productive morphemes, so knowing the letters alone does not allow a learner to derive the meaning without knowing the expanded words.

Etymology

LGBT is a short form made from the first letters L, G, B, and T, standing for 'lesbian', 'gay', 'bisexual', and 'transgender'. Today LGBT is used to name the community of people with these identities and often includes other gender and sexual identities too.