het
/hɛt/
het noun: a heterosexual person. Also the simple past and past participle of heat.
Noun (1)
het (countable and uncountable, plural hets)
- A heterosexual person.
- See how you like that you townie het from southeastern MA / Saying "fairy" and "Mark Wahlberg" like it's southie any day2020, “metal”, in food house, performed by food house
- Fan fiction involving characters in an opposite-sex romantic or sexual relationship.
- Mary Ellen Curtin presented a paper at the 2002 Popular Culture Association conference in which she studied fanfiction archives to discover that black characters appeared far less in both het and slash fiction than white or even Latino/a characters.2005, Rhiannon Bury, Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online, Peter Lang, published 2005, →ISBN, page 207
- The vast majority of fan fiction is het or slash, and these types are usually defined against each other as approaches to romance and porn, marginalizing gen as something outside of the dominant concerns of fan fiction.2006, Catherine Driscoll, “One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance”, in Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse, editors, Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the...
- Synonyms:
- hetfic
Adjective (1)
het (comparative more het, superlative most het)
Adjective (2)
het (comparative more het, superlative most het)
Proper noun capitalized: HET
HET
- Initialism of Historical Enquiries Team.
Noun (2) capitalized: HET
HET (plural HETs)
- Abbreviation of Hall effect thruster.
Noun (3) capitalized: Het
Het pl (plural only)
- Any of a number of nomadic groups from the Argentine Pampas and Patagonia.
Also used as
het is also the simple past and past participle of heat.
het is also the dialectal form of heat.
het is also the clipping of heterozygous.
het is also the alternative form of heth.
Synonyms of het
Forms of het
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | hets |
| plural | HETs |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more het |
| superlative | most het |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | hets |
| present participle | hetting |
| past participle | hetted |
| past | hetted |
| past participle | het |
| past | het |
Origin of het
Clipping of heterosexual.
From Middle English hette (simple past), het (past participle), from Old English hǣtte (simple past), (ġe)hǣted (past participle), conjugations of hǣtan (“to heat”); see heat (“to make hot”).
Words formed from het
Phrases with het
Words that rhyme with het
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- upset
- vignette
- whet
- sett
- cornet
- let
- manchette
- roulette
- yet
- cadet
- cassette
- collarette
- forget
- pet
- banquette
- met
- mignonette
- musette
- octet
- reset
- unset
- abet
- beget
- brunette
- cuvette
- debt
- dinette
- dudette
- duet
- minuet
- navette
- planchette
- quartet
- regret
- silhouette
- vinaigrette
- aid and abet
- amourette
- barrette
- bavette
- bet
- brett
- briquette
- corvette
- couchette
- enucleate
- fossette
- grisette
Questions about het
- What does het mean?
- Het means a heterosexual person.
- What part of speech is het?
- Het can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce het?
- Het is pronounced /hɛt/.
- What is the plural of het?
- The plural of het is hets.
Words near het in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: het (page history and authors); HET (page history and authors); Het (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.
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