copulation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur

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

The business of copulation was filth to him before the end. — Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Their parts are perfectly framed for generation, and they have a wonderful propensity to copulation. — Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth, Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Fairies marry not; but there be amongst them Incubi, that have copulation with flesh and bloud. — Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes

sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge

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