EJACULATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ejaculation mean? 

• EJACULATION (noun)
  The noun EJACULATION has 2 senses:

1. an abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion

2. the discharge of semen in males

  Familiarity information: EJACULATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EJACULATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

ejaculation; interjection

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

exclaiming; exclamation (an abrupt excited utterance)

Derivation:

ejaculate (utter impulsively)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The discharge of semen in males

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

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

discharge; emission; expelling (any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body)

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

nocturnal emission (ejaculation during sleep (usually during a dream))

premature ejaculation (ejaculation during the early stages of sexual excitement or soon after the insertion of the penis into the vagina)

Derivation:

ejaculate (eject semen)

 Context examples 

As he did so he started back, and I could hear his ejaculation, "Mein Gott!" as it was smothered in his throat.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The heartiness of the ejaculation startled Mr. Dick exceedingly; and me, too, if I am to tell the truth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Holmes gave an ejaculation of impatience.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Astonished and shocked at so unlover-like a speech, she was almost ready to cry out, "Lord! what should hinder it?"—but checking her desire, confined herself to this silent ejaculation.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had framed himself in the aperture.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A disorder referring to problems related to ejaculation.

(Ejaculation Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) Over the past four weeks when you had sexual stimulation or intercourse, how often did you have the feeling of orgasm with our without ejaculation?

(IIEF - Did You Have Feeling of Orgasm With or Without Ejaculation, NCI Thesaurus)

The ejaculation in Emma's ear expressed, “Ah! there is no end of the sad consequences of your going to South End. It does not bear talking of.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAMA) Genitourinary symptoms; frequency of micturition, urgency of micturition, amenorrhea, menorrhagia, development of frigidity, premature ejaculation, loss of libido, impotence.

(HAMA - Genitourinary Symptoms, NCI Thesaurus)

The sleepers were all aroused: ejaculations, terrified murmurs sounded in every room; door after door unclosed; one looked out and another looked out; the gallery filled.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)