FACTS OF LIFE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does facts of life mean? 

• FACTS OF LIFE (noun)
  The noun FACTS OF LIFE has 1 sense:

1. the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring

  Familiarity information: FACTS OF LIFE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FACTS OF LIFE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

breeding; facts of life; procreation; reproduction

Hypernyms ("facts of life" is a kind of...):

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

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

crossbreeding; interbreeding; miscegenation (reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons))

generation; multiplication; propagation (the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production)

 Context examples 

His young mind hungered for plain facts of life, after the long course of speculation and of mysticism on which he had been trained.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For a long time he smoked on in silence, weighing the pictorial wisdom of the white man and verifying it by the facts of life.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Do you know, I sometimes catch myself wishing that I, too, were blind to the facts of life and only knew its fancies and illusions.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect; and while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

In truth, they were children together, so far as love was concerned, and they were as naive and immature in the expression of their love as a pair of children, and this despite the fact that she was crammed with a university education and that his head was full of scientific philosophy and the hard facts of life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)