copulation

The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.

Noun

  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...

Origin

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

Forms

copulations

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

abstinence

Hypernyms

sexual activity

Hyponyms

diapersex fornication marital congress marital embrace quickie

Related

conjugal visit copulate flirt courtship masturbate Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class III § 374a. Sexuality Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 43. Junction

Derived

autocopulation postcopulation pseudocopulation retrocopulation Russian copulation