"fornication" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌfɔɹnɪˈkeɪʃən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fornication.wav [Southern-England] Forms: fornications [plural]
enPR: fôr'nĭ-kā'shən Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From Middle English fornicacioun, from Old French fornicacion, from Latin fornicātiō, from fornix (“brothel”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|fornicacioun}} Middle English fornicacioun, {{der|en|fro|fornicacion}} Old French fornicacion, {{der|en|la|fornicātiō}} Latin fornicātiō, {{m|la|fornix|t=brothel}} fornix (“brothel”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} fornication (countable and uncountable, plural fornications)
  1. (religion, law) Sexual intercourse by people who are not married to each other, or which is considered illicit in another way. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Law, Religion
    Sense id: en-fornication-en-noun-RbENaUQy Categories (other): Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 77 23 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 95 5 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 81 19 Topics: law, lifestyle, religion
  2. (colloquial) Sexual intercourse in general; sex. Tags: colloquial, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Sex
    Sense id: en-fornication-en-noun-Y3hwX~vN Disambiguation of Sex: 36 64
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: copulation Derived forms: fornicatory Related terms: fornicate Translations (sexual intercourse considered illicit): زِنًى (zinan) [masculine] (Arabic), سِفَاح (sifāḥ) [masculine] (Arabic), ܙܵܢܝܘܼܬܵܐ (zanyuta) [feminine] (Assyrian Neo-Aramaic), блудство (bludstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), прелюбодея́ние (preljubodejánie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), fornicació [feminine] (Catalan), 通奸 (tōngjiān) (Chinese Mandarin), 姦淫 (Chinese Mandarin), 奸淫 (jiānyín) (Chinese Mandarin), 亂倫 (Chinese Mandarin), 乱伦 (luànlún) (Chinese Mandarin), utugt [common-gender] (Danish), ontucht [feminine] (Dutch), fornikaatio (Finnish), haureus (Finnish), salavuoteus [historical] [law] (Finnish), fornication [feminine] (French), fornicación [feminine] (Galician), მრუშობა (mrušoba) (Georgian), სიძვა (siʒva) (Georgian), Unzucht [feminine] (German), fornikasi (Indonesian), 姦淫 (kan'in) (alt: かんいん) (Japanese), 간음 (ganeum) (alt: 姦淫) (Korean), kaikaiātara (Maori), utukt [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), utukt [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), fornicacion [feminine] (Occitan), Huararie [feminine] (Plautdietsch), rozpusta [feminine] (Polish), fornicação [feminine] (Portuguese), curvie [feminine] (Romanian), блуд (blud) [masculine] (Russian), внебра́чная связь (vnebráčnaja svjazʹ) [feminine] (Russian), прелюбодея́ние (preljubodejánije) [neuter] (Russian), распу́тство (raspútstvo) [neuter] (Russian), fornicación [feminine] (Spanish), otukt [common-gender] (Swedish), pakikiapid (Tagalog), zina (Turkish)
Disambiguation of 'sexual intercourse considered illicit': 46 54

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      "word": "curvie"
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          "ref": "2013, Arthur W. Calhoun, The American Family in the Colonial Period, Courier Corporation",
          "text": "Thus, at Roxbury, 1678, Hanna Hopkins was censured in the church for fornication with her husband before marriage and for fleeing from justice into Rhode Island.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Sexual intercourse by people who are not married to each other, or which is considered illicit in another way."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "religion",
          "religion"
        ],
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "Sexual intercourse",
          "sexual intercourse"
        ],
        [
          "illicit",
          "illicit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(religion, law) Sexual intercourse by people who are not married to each other, or which is considered illicit in another way."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law",
        "lifestyle",
        "religion"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Geoffrey Kennell, The Upper Crust, Xlibris Corporation, page 185",
          "text": "For a moment he stared at the back of the Lascar, wondering if he were the youth that he had disturbed during fornication with his Engineer, then dismissed all thoughts of the previous night, he was getting old, and suspicious, what did it matter […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Sexual intercourse in general; sex."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sex",
          "sex"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) Sexual intercourse in general; sex."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌfɔɹnɪˈkeɪʃən/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪʃən"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "fôr'nĭ-kā'shən"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "copulation"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "zinan",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "زِنًى"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "sifāḥ",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "سِفَاح"
    },
    {
      "code": "aii",
      "lang": "Assyrian Neo-Aramaic",
      "roman": "zanyuta",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ܙܵܢܝܘܼܬܵܐ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bludstvo",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "блудство"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "preljubodejánie",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "прелюбодея́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fornicació"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tōngjiān",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "word": "通奸"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "word": "姦淫"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiānyín",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "word": "奸淫"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "word": "亂倫"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "luànlún",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "word": "乱伦"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "utugt"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ontucht"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "word": "fornikaatio"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "word": "haureus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ],
      "word": "salavuoteus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fornication"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fornicación"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "mrušoba",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "word": "მრუშობა"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "siʒva",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "word": "სიძვა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Unzucht"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "word": "fornikasi"
    },
    {
      "alt": "かんいん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kan'in",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "word": "姦淫"
    },
    {
      "alt": "姦淫",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "ganeum",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "word": "간음"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "word": "kaikaiātara"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "utukt"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "utukt"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fornicacion"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Huararie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rozpusta"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fornicação"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "curvie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "blud",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "блуд"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vnebráčnaja svjazʹ",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "внебра́чная связь"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "preljubodejánije",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "прелюбодея́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "raspútstvo",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "распу́тство"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fornicación"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "otukt"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "word": "pakikiapid"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "sexual intercourse considered illicit",
      "word": "zina"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "fornication"
  ],
  "word": "fornication"
}

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