copulation
nounUK /kɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
Etymology From Middle French copulation, from Latin copulo (“to join, unite, connect”).
1
The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.
- I quite correctly defined logical copulation by means [of] the copula of inclusion.2019, Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, History and Applications, page 401:
2
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.
- Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.c. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter VIII:
- 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.1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 30:
- Synonyms
98 terms
aphrodisia, carnal knowledge, coitus, coition, commerce, commixtion, congress, conjunction, connection, consummation, conversation, copulation, coupling, intercourse, intimacy, intimate relations, intromission, joining, lovemaking, lustmaking, mating, mounting, pareunia, penetration, relations, sex, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation, sexual union, swiving, union, the beast with two backs, the birds and the bees, boom-boom, chesterfield rugby, horizontal dancing, horizontal hula, horizontal jogging, horizontal mambo, horizontal refreshments, horizontal slam dance, how's your father, love, Netflix and chill, physical love, roll in the hay, Ugandan affairs, Ugandan discussions, action, ass, bang, barney-mugging, beef injection, bonking, cuntfuck, fucking, frig, fucky-fucky, hot beef injection, hump, humpa humpa, jig-jig, jiggy-jiggy, lay, legover, meat injection, nookie, old hat, pipe, plow, plough, poon, poontang, punani, pussy, ride, root, rumpo, rumpy-pumpy, seeing-to, sexy time, sexy times, screw, screwing, shag, skin, snu snu, tang, trim, hanky-panky, funny business, making whoopee, jiggery-pokery, monkey business, fooling about, fooling around, playing around- Antonyms
- abstinence
- Derived terms
- autocopulation, postcopulation, pseudocopulation, retrocopulation, Russian copulation
- Related terms
- conjugal visit, copulate, flirt, courtship, masturbate, Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class III § 374a. Sexuality, Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 43. Junction
- Hypernyms
- sexual activity
- Hyponyms
- diapersex, fornication, marital congress, marital embrace, quickie
- Meronyms
- ejaculation, orgasm