Erection

Quick meaning: Erection is a noun meaning (uncountable) The act of building or putting up or together of something.

Meaning

(uncountable) The act of building or putting up or together of something.

More Meanings

1. (countable) Anything erected or built.
2. (uncountable, physiology, of a penis or clitoris) The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.
3. (countable) A penis or clitoris that is erect.
4. (uncountable or countable, ecclesiastical) Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities.
5. (uncountable, physiology) The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.

Example Sentences

The Empire State Building was once the world's tallest erection.

A marriage was only consummated via erection, penetration, and insemination intra vas.

If any serious number of deck erections have been left unfaired, these percentages will be too low.

There is some obscurity attaching to the only other one of those alleged erections of parishes, the case of Foot Dee, near Aberdeen.

Word Forms

• erections

Synonyms for erection

Depending on context, synonyms include tentigo, tumescence, building, construction, babymaker, boner.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hard-on, erecting, boner, dysfunction, raising, facility.

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