"copulation" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /kɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-copulation.wav Forms: copulations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From Middle French copulation, from Latin copulo (“I join, unite, connect”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|frm|copulation}} Middle French copulation, {{uder|en|la|copulo||I join, unite, connect}} Latin copulo (“I join, unite, connect”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} copulation (countable and uncountable, plural copulations)
  1. (countable) The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction. Tags: countable Translations (the act of joining): կապում (kapum) (Armenian), свързване (svǎrzvane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), liittäminen (Finnish), liittyminen (Finnish), yhdistäminen (Finnish), yhdistyminen (Finnish), yhtyminen (Finnish), koplaus (Finnish), შეერთება (šeerteba) (Georgian), გაერთიანება (gaertianeba) (Georgian), Verbindung [feminine] (German), kopulasi (Malay), acoplagem [feminine] (Portuguese), acoplamento [masculine] (Portuguese), cópula [masculine] (Portuguese), junção [feminine] (Portuguese), ligação [feminine] (Portuguese), união [feminine] (Portuguese), unire [feminine] (Romanian), împerechere [feminine] (Romanian), соедине́ние (sojedinénije) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-copulation-en-noun-Fcue~9Ry Disambiguation of 'the act of joining': 97 3
  2. (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. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Sex Translations (the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse): συνουσία (sunousía) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), μίξις (míxis) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), مُضَاجَعَة (muḍājaʕa) [feminine] (Arabic), جِمَاع (jimāʕ) [masculine] (Arabic), سفاد (Arabic), զուգավորում (zugavorum) (Armenian), съвкупление (sǎvkuplenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), copulatie [feminine] (Dutch), kopulacio (Esperanto), paaritumine (Estonian), kopulatsioon (Estonian), parittelu (Finnish), copulation [feminine] (French), სქესობრივი აქტი (skesobrivi akṭi) (Georgian), კოპულაცია (ḳoṗulacia) (Georgian), კოიტუსი (ḳoiṭusi) (Georgian), შეწყვილება (šec̣q̇vileba) (note: for animals) (Georgian), Koitus [masculine] (German), Kopulation [feminine] (German), Beischlaf [masculine] (German), Akt [masculine] (German), Begattung [feminine] (German), Paarung [feminine] (German), Kohabitation [feminine] (German), συνουσία (synousía) [feminine] (Greek), kopulasi (Indonesian), 性交 (seikō) (alt: せいこう) (Japanese), dauginimasis [masculine] (Lithuanian), kopulasi (Malay), persetubuhan (Malay), persanggamaan (Malay), hubungan jenis (Malay), mengawan (note: of animals) (Malay), kopulacja [feminine] (Polish), coito [masculine] (Portuguese), cópula [feminine] (Portuguese), copulație [feminine] (Romanian), împerechere (Romanian), сноше́ние (snošénije) [neuter] (Russian), совокупле́ние (sovokuplénije) [neuter] (Russian), копуля́ция (kopuljácija) [feminine] (Russian), ко́итус (kóitus) [masculine] (Russian), kopulácia (Slovak), párenie (Slovak), coito [masculine] (Spanish), copulación [feminine] (Spanish), kopulation [common-gender] (Swedish), pagtatalik (Tagalog), రతి (rati) (Telugu), koit (Volapük)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: sexual activity Hyponyms: fornication, quickie Meronyms: ejaculation, orgasm Derived forms: autocopulation, postcopulation, pseudocopulation, retrocopulation, Russian copulation Related terms: copulate, flirt, courtship, masturbate, Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class III § 374a. Sexuality, Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 43. Junction

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "c. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter VIII:",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "roman": "muḍājaʕa",
          "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "word": "kopulacio"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "word": "paaritumine"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "word": "kopulatsioon"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "word": "parittelu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "copulation"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "skesobrivi akṭi",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "word": "სქესობრივი აქტი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ḳoṗulacia",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "word": "კოპულაცია"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ḳoiṭusi",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "word": "კოიტუსი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "note": "for animals",
      "roman": "šec̣q̇vileba",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "word": "შეწყვილება"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Koitus"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Kopulation"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Beischlaf"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Akt"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Begattung"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Paarung"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Kohabitation"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "synousía",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "συνουσία"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "sunousía",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "συνουσία"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "míxis",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "μίξις"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "word": "kopulasi"
    },
    {
      "alt": "せいこう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "seikō",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "word": "性交"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dauginimasis"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "word": "kopulasi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "word": "persetubuhan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "word": "persanggamaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "word": "hubungan jenis"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "note": "of animals",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "word": "mengawan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kopulacja"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "coito"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cópula"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "copulație"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "word": "împerechere"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "snošénije",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "сноше́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sovokuplénije",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "совокупле́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kopuljácija",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "копуля́ция"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kóitus",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ко́итус"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "word": "kopulácia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "word": "párenie"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "coito"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "copulación"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kopulation"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "word": "pagtatalik"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "rati",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "word": "రతి"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse",
      "word": "koit"
    }
  ],
  "word": "copulation"
}

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