英和和英

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /tuːˈspɪɹɪtɪd/, /ˈtuːˌspɪɹɪtɪd/
• (General American) IPA: /tuˈspɪɹɪtɪd/, /ˈtuˌspɪɹɪtɪd/
• ハイフネーション: two-spir‧it‧ed

形容詞

two-spirited (comparative more two-spirited, superlative most two-spirited)

1. (chiefly Canada, US) Synonym of two-spirit (“of, pertaining to, or being a two-spirit (noun sense)”)
   • 1990 December 22 – 1991 January 4, Dawn Schmitz, “New Two spirited Group Formed”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 23, Boston, Mass.: GCN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 1:

     An organization established this year in San Diego is one of the few in the country made up of Two Spirited people (a Native term for gay men and lesbians), according to one of its founders, Tom Lidot. […] One of the group's goals is "to re-establish the pride and the role that Two Spirited people held" in Native culture, said Lidot, who is a member of the Tlingit nation.

Further reading

• two-spirit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “two-spirited, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2025.