Copulation

Quick meaning: Copulation is a noun meaning (countable) The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.

Meaning

(countable) The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) 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.

Example Sentences

I quite correctly defined logical copulation by means [of] the copula of inclusion.

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

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.

Word Forms

• copulations

Synonyms for copulation

Depending on context, synonyms include aphrodisia, coitus, coition, commerce, commixtion, congress.

Antonyms for copulation

Common opposites include abstinence.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include intercourse, coition, coitus, relation, congress, coupling.

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