copulation
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /kɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
copulation
- (countable) The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.
- (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.
- ca.1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter VIII:
- Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.
- ca.1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter VIII:
- See also Thesaurus:copulation
- German: Verbindung
- Russian: соедине́ние
- German: Koitus, Kopulation, Beischlaf, Akt, Begattung, Paarung, Kohabitation
- Russian: сноше́ние
- Spanish: coito, copulación
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