Synonyms for homo
ˈhoʊ moʊho·mo

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1. homosexual, homophile, homo, gaynoun

   someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex

   Synonyms:
   gay, human, man, homosexual, human being, homophile

2. homo, man, human being, humannoun

   any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage

   Synonyms:
   military personnel, world, humankind, man, human beings, mankind, valet de chambre, serviceman, military man, gentleman, valet, human, homosexual, homophile, humanity, piece, gentleman's gentleman, human being, humans, adult male, gay, human race

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1. • Hominid

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1. List of paraphrases for "homo":

   gay, queer, faggot, fag, homosexual

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1. Jeff Goldblum:

   What else can we do? being a Sandy Meisner devotee, I’m a romantic about the ensemble credo and synergy and, like this movie depicts, what educated, smart and deeply caring people can do – even a few of them – together at a crucial moment. They can even sometimes defeat the forces of ignorance, corruption and greed, and keep the Homo sapiens ball moving along a little more. Maybe.

2. Martin Tobias Lithner:

   No species can withstand all the infinite factors to which it can be exposed. Homo sapiens is closer to mass death than other species of the same geographical distribution, largely because we hunt it ourselves.

3. Juliet Brophy:

   This is the first partial skull of a child of Homo naledi yet recovered and this begins to give us insight into all stages of life of this remarkable species.

4. Dartmouth College anthropologist Jeremy DeSilva:

   The legs are long, the knees are like ours, the feet are human-like. Homo naledi walked a lot like us.

5. Dartmouth College anthropologist Jeremy DeSilva:

   Our science has known for decades that upright walking, bipedalism, preceded brain enlargement over the course of human evolution. But never before has it been so obvious. Homo naledi possessed a strikingly modern human-like foot, even though its brain was only about one-third the size of our brains today.