cross-dress

See also: crossdress

English

Alternative forms

• crossdress
• xdress (abbreviation)

Etymology

From cross- +‎ dress.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɔsˈdɹɛs/, /ˈkɹɒsˈdɹɛs/

Verb

cross-dress (third-person singular simple present cross-dresses, present participle cross-dressing, simple past and past participle cross-dressed)

1. To wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex.
2. (immunology) To display (on the surface of a dendritic cell) antigens produced by a different cell.
   • 2006 November 1, Brian P. Dolan et al., “Dendritic Cells Cross-Dressed with Peptide MHC Class I Complexes Prime CD8+ T Cells”, in Journal of Immunology, volume 177, number 9, →DOI, pages 6018–6024:

     Such DC are cross-dressed because they are wearing peptide-MHC complexes generated by other cells.

Synonyms

• transvest (formal)

Derived terms

• cross-dresser
• cross-dressing

Translations

to wear clothes of the opposite sex

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 扮裝／扮装 (zh) (bànzhuāng), 變裝／变装 (biànzhuāng), 異裝／异装 (zh) (yìzhuāng), 易裝／易装 (yìzhuāng), (in a theatrical performance) 反串 (zh) (fǎnchuàn), 男裝／男装 (zh) (nánzhuāng) (cross-dress as a man), 女裝／女装 (zh) (nǚzhuāng)

• Finnish: pukeutua ristiin
• Irish: trasghléas
• Japanese: 男装する (ja) (だんそうする, dansō suru) (cross-dress as a man), 女装する (ja) (じょそうする, josō suru) (cross-dress as a woman)
• Polish: przebierać się impf
• Russian: переодева́ться (ru) (pereodevátʹsja) (в мужчи́ну OR в же́нщину)