Word.ws English Dictionary

cishets

cishets is the plural of cishet.

Meaning of cishet

Noun

cishet (plural cishets)

  1. (informal) A cisgender and heterosexual person.
    • Last weekend I was on Facebook taking part in a conversation about dating sites when someone called me a cishet, in a sneering tone.2013, Anonymous letter-writer quoted in Maureen Matthews, "About last night", The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 October 2013

See all 2 meanings of cishet

Questions about cishets

What is cishets the plural of?
Cishets is the plural of cishet.

Words near cishets in the dictionary

  1. cisheteronormativity
  2. cisheteropatriarchal
  3. cisheteropatriarchies
  4. cisheteropatriarchy
  5. cisheterosexual
  6. cishets
  7. cishon
  8. cishons
  9. cisid
  10. cisidentity
  11. cisids

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cishets (page history and authors); cishet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cishets.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cishets. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.