copulation

noun
/kɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/UK

Etymology

From Middle French copulation, from Latin copulo (“to join, unite, connect”).

  1. derived from copulo — “to join, unite, connect
  2. derived from copulation

Definitions

  1. The act of coupling or joining

    The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.

    • I quite correctly defined logical copulation by means [of] the copula of inclusion.
  2. Sexual procreation between a man and a woman or transfer of the sperm from male to female

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for copulation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA