copulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: copulations
Etymology: From Middle French copulation, from Latin copulo (“I join, unite, connect”).
Senses: examples: text: I quite correctly defined logical copulation by means [of] the copula of inclusion.
ref: 2019, Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, History and Applications, page 401:
glosses: The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.
examples: text: Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.
ref: c. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter VIII:
text: In the dusky streets around me ruled an innocent and open copulation. The entire town mated together, in the leafy bowers that had sprung up among the washing-machines and television sets in the shopping mall, on the settees and divans by the furniture store, in the tropical paradises of the suburban gardens.
ref: 1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 30:
glosses: Sexual procreation between a man and a woman or transfer of the sperm from male to female; usually applied to the mating process in nonhuman animals; coitus; coition.
Synonyms: word: aphrodisia
word: carnal knowledge
word: coitus
word: coition
word: commerce
word: commixtion
word: congress
word: conjunction
word: connection
word: consummation
word: conversation
word: copulation
word: coupling
word: intercourse
word: intimacy
word: intimate relations
word: intromission
word: joining
word: lovemaking
word: lustmaking
word: marital embrace
word: mating
word: mounting
word: pareunia
word: penetration
word: relations
word: sex
word: sexual congress
word: sexual intercourse
word: sexual relation
word: sexual union
word: swiving
word: union
word: the beast with two backs
word: the birds and the bees
word: boom-boom
word: chesterfield rugby
word: horizontal dancing
word: horizontal hula
word: horizontal jogging
word: horizontal mambo
word: horizontal refreshments
word: how's your father
word: love
word: Netflix and chill
word: physical love
word: roll in the hay
word: Ugandan affairs
word: Ugandan discussions
word: action
word: ass
word: bang
word: barney-mugging
word: beef injection
word: bonking
word: cuntfuck
word: fucking
word: frig
word: fucky-fucky
word: hot beef injection
word: hump
word: humpa humpa
word: jig-jig
word: jiggy-jiggy
word: lay
word: legover
word: meat injection
word: nookie
word: old hat
word: pipe
word: plow
word: plough
word: poon
word: poontang
word: punani
word: pussy
word: ride
word: root
word: rumpo
word: rumpy-pumpy
word: seeing-to
word: sexy time
word: sexy times
word: screw
word: screwing
word: shag
word: skin
word: snu snu
word: tang
word: trim
word: hanky-panky
word: funny business
word: making whoopee
word: jiggery-pokery
word: monkey business
word: fooling about
word: fooling around
word: playing around
Hypernyms: word: sexual activity
Hyponyms: word: diapersex
word: fornication
word: quickie
Meronyms: word: ejaculation
word: orgasm
Derived terms: autocopulation
postcopulation
pseudocopulation
retrocopulation
Russian copulation
Related terms: word: copulate
word: flirt
word: courtship
word: masturbate
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class III § 374a. Sexuality
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 43. Junction