[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

gay \gay\, n.
   an ornament obs. --l'estrange.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

gay \gay\ g=a, a. compar. gayer; superl. gayest. f.
   gai, perhaps fr. ohg. g?hi swift, rapid, g. gaumh, jaumh,
   steep, hasty; or cf. ohg. w?hi beatiful, good. cf. jay.
   1913 webster
   1. excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or
      delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry.
      1913 webster

            belinda smiled, and all the world was gay. --pope.
      1913 webster

            gay hope is theirs by fancy fed.      --gray.
      1913 webster

   2. brilliant in colors; splendid; fine; richly dressed.
      1913 webster

            why is my neighbor's wife so gay?     --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            a bevy of fair women, richly gay
            in gems and wanton dress             --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. loose; dissipated; lewd. colloq.

   syn: merry; gleeful; blithe; airy; lively; sprightly,
        sportive; light-hearted; frolicsome; jolly; jovial;
        joyous; joyful; glad; showy; splendid; vivacious.
        1913 webster
see also:
gayer gayest jay 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

gay
     adj 1: bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a cheery
            hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile" syn: cheery,
             sunny
     2: full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts
        were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such
        a jocund company"- wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the
        reunion"; "jolly old saint nick"; "a jovial old
        gentleman"; "have a merry christmas"; "peals of merry
        laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" syn: jocund, jolly, jovial,
         merry, mirthful
     3: given to social pleasures often including dissipation; "led
        a gay bohemian life"; "a gay old rogue with an eye for the
        ladies"
     4: brightly colored and showy; "girls decked out in brave new
        dresses"; "brave banners flying"; "`braw' is a scottish
        word"; "a dress a bit too gay for her years"; "birds with
        gay plumage" syn: brave, braw
     5: offering fun and gaiety; "a gala ball after the
        inauguration"; "a festive or festal occasion"; "gay and
        exciting night life"; "a merry evening" syn: galaa, festal,
         festive, merry
     6: homosexual or arousing homosexual desires syn: queer, homophilea
     n : someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual
         attraction to persons of the same sex syn: homosexual,
          homo
see also:
cheery sunny jocund jolly jovial merry 
mirthful brave braw galaa festal 
festive queer homophilea homosexual homo 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

198 moby thesaurus words for "gay":
   ac-dc, abandoned, addled, alert, amphierotic, animate, animated,
   antic, autoerotic, beaming, beatific, beatified, beery, bemused,
   besotted, bisexed, bisexual, blessed, blind drunk, blissful,
   blithe, blithesome, boon, brash, brave, bravura, braw, bright,
   bright-hued, brilliant, bubbling, bubbly, buoyant, burning, butch,
   cant, capering, capersome, carefree, cheerful, chichi, chipper,
   chirping, colorful, colory, coltish, confident, convivial,
   crapulent, crapulous, dancing, daring, dashing, debauched,
   debonair, deep-colored, deviant, devil-may-care, dissipated,
   dissolute, dizzy, drenched, dressy, drunk, drunken, effeminate,
   effervescent, exhibitionistic, exotic, exuberant, far-gone, fast,
   festal, festive, flashing, flashy, flaunting, flushed with joy,
   flustered, forward, fou, free, free and easy, frilly, frisky,
   frolicsome, frothy, full, full of beans, gala, gallant, gamesome,
   garish, gaudy, gay-colored, giddy, glad, gladsome, gleeful,
   glittering, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, hail-fellow-well-met,
   happy, hearty, high-colored, high-spirited, hilarious, homoerotic,
   homophile, homosexual, in liquor, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious,
   intense, intoxicated, inverted, jaunty, jazzy, jocund, jolly,
   jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, keen, laughing, leaping, lesbian,
   licentious, light-hearted, lighthearted, lively, mannish,
   many-colored, maudlin, mellow, merry, merrymaking, mirthful,
   muddled, nappy, on the loose, overweening, perverted, playful,
   presuming, profligate, purring, pushful, pushy, queer, radiant,
   raffish, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish, reeling, rich,
   rich-colored, rollicking, rollicksome, rompish, sapphic,
   self-assertive, shikker, showy, singing, skittish, smiling,
   smirking, snazzy, sodden, sotted, sparkling, spirited, splashy,
   splurgy, sportive, sporty, sprightly, starry-eyed, thrice happy,
   tiddly, tipsy, transvestite, tribadistic, unbridled,
   under the influence, vital, vivacious, vivid, wild, zestful,
   zippy

[5] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

gay, ga town, fips 32384
  location: 33.09367 n, 84.57400 w
  population 1990: 133 64 housing units
  area: 2.0 sq km land, 0.0 sq km water
gay, mi
  zip codes: 49945
gay, wv
  zip codes: 25244

[6] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

gay, ga -- u.s. town in georgia
   population 2000:    149
   housing units 2000: 69
   land area 2000:     0.860788 sq. miles 2.229431 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.000000 sq. miles 0.000000 sq. km
   total area 2000:    0.860788 sq. miles 2.229431 sq. km
   fips code:            32384
   located within:       georgia ga, fips 13
   location:             33.093797 n, 84.573924 w
   zip codes 1990:    
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    gay, ga
    gay

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