copulation — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.

   Uso

   • numerabile

   Esempi

   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; usually applied to the mating process in nonhuman animals; coitus; coition.

   Uso

   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.

Sostantivo

1. sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur

   Sinonimi

   sexual intercourseintercoursesex actcoituscoitionsexual congresssexual relationrelationcarnal knowledge

   Termini più generali

   sexual activitysexual practicesexsex activity