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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who engages in sodomy.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An inhabitant of Sodom, an ancient city which, according to the account in Genesis, was destroyed by fire from heaven on account of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
  • noun One who is guilty of sodomy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An inhabitant of Sodom.
  • noun One guilty of sodomy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who practices sodomy; a sodomist.
  • noun derogatory A male homosexual.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)

Etymologies

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Sodom +‎ -ite

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