menstruation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛnstɹuːˈeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌmɛnstɹʊˈeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌmɛnstɹuˈeɪʃən/
ipa: /-stɹəˈweɪ-/
ipa: /ˌmɛnˈstɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: menstruations
form: menstration
Etymology: From menstruum + -ation, modelled after Late Latin menstruatio. The word is cognate with French menstruation, Spanish menstruación, displaced Old English mōnaþblōd (literally “monthblood”).
Senses: examples: text: It would seem that in Avebury, Stonehenge, and Malta the mystery cult of menstruation/mensuration reached its most consummate development.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 267:
text: [T]he release of semen from the penis predominantly symbolizes a forceful masculine operation, an orgasmic ‘rush’ – ejaculate refers to a sudden happening, an ejection – while the ‘loss’ of blood during menstruation is viewed as a more or less passive occurrence. Even the metaphors employed to depict these two aspects of corporeality serve to situate them on differently gendered poles. Man ‘spoofs off’ or ‘shoots his load’, while woman ‘gets her visitor’, ‘has got her monthly’.
ref: 2002, Annie Potts, “Innerspace”, in The Science/Fiction of Sex: Feminist Deconstruction and the Vocabulares of Heterosex, Hove, East Sussex; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part 2 (The Vocabularies of Heterosex), page 180:
glosses: The periodic discharging of the menses, the flow of blood and cells from the lining of the uterus in unfertilized females of humans and other primates.
glosses: An instance of menstruation, the part of each month during which a fertile woman menstruates.
Synonyms: word: menstruation
word: Aunt Flo
word: Aunt Frieda
word: Aunt Rose
word: blob
word: blood sports
word: Bloody Mary
word: blowjob week
word: breaching the beaver dam
word: catamenia
word: caught short
word: Charlie
word: closed for maintenance
word: come crook
word: country cousin
word: crimson tide
word: crimson wave
word: curse
topics: biblical
religion
lifestyle
word: curse of Eve
topics: biblical
religion
lifestyle
word: curse of Tom
word: dropping clots
word: entertaining the general
word: fallen to the Communists
word: fall off the roof
word: flowers
word: flashing the red flag
word: flying baker
topics: nautical
transport
word: flying the red flag
word: friend
word: grandma George
word: granny
word: granny grunts
word: have the painters in
word: have one's moons
word: have the rag on
word: high tide
word: holy week
word: illness
word: in the red tent
word: Jennie
word: lady problems
word: lady time
word: little sister
word: menstrual period
word: menstruation period
word: Monica
word: monthlies
word: monthly bill
word: monthly friend
word: monthly period
word: monthly visitor
word: mooncup time
word: moontime
word: mother nature
word: off games
word: old faithful
word: on
word: on a streak
word: OTB
word: on the blob
word: on the cloth
word: on the rag
word: out of order
word: paddling in scarlet waters
word: period
word: poorliness
word: ragging
word: red-headed aunt
word: red-letter day
word: red sails in the sunset
word: riding the cotton pony
word: riding the red river
word: Rita Red Pants
word: shark week
word: so
word: so-so
word: squiffy
word: surfing the crimson tide
word: surfing the crimson wave
word: surrendering to the red army
word: the captain is home
word: the cardinal is home
word: the flag is out
word: the flag is up
word: the Reds are playing at home
word: time for an oil change
word: time of the month
word: Tom
word: Tommy
word: up on blocks
word: woman's week
Derived terms: femstruation
male menstruation
menstruation period
mismenstruation
nonmenstruation
premenstruation
Related terms: menarche
menopause
menstrual
menstrual cycle
menstruate
menstruous
PMT
tampon
sanitary towel