COPULATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does copulation mean? 

• COPULATION (noun)
  The noun COPULATION has 1 sense:

1. sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur

  Familiarity information: COPULATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COPULATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

carnal knowledge; coition; coitus; copulation; intercourse; relation; sex act; sexual congress; sexual intercourse; sexual relation

Hypernyms ("copulation" is a kind of...):

sex; sex activity; sexual activity; sexual practice (activities associated with sexual intercourse)

Meronyms (parts of "copulation"):

insemination (the introduction of semen into the genital tract of a female)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "copulation"):

defloration (the act of depriving a woman of her virginity (especially by rupturing the hymen through sexual intercourse))

ass; fuck; fucking; nookie; nooky; piece of ass; piece of tail; roll in the hay; screw; screwing; shag; shtup (slang for sexual intercourse)

hank panky (illicit sexual intercourse)

penetration (the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman)

criminal congress; unlawful carnal knowledge (forbidden or tabu sexual intercourse between individuals)

Derivation:

copulate (engage in sexual intercourse)

 Context examples 

However, these were not able to attract native finches for copulation and thus had to mate within their own new species, making them genetically and reproductively isolated.

(Researchers report rapid formation of new bird species in Galápagos islands, Wikinews)