het

noun

ˈhet How to pronounce het (audio)
: heterosexual
het adjective

Examples of het in a Sentence

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Not all het people are cis, as there are straight trans people. — Quispe López, Them, 18 Mar. 2025 And how often in a cis-het relationship is the person in charge of the money … the man? — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 June 2021 A lot of the ambivalent parent discourse tends to coagulate around white cis-het mothers of a certain milieu. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1972, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of het was circa 1972

Phrases Containing het

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“Het.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/het. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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