FORNICATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fornicate mean? 

• FORNICATE (verb)
  The verb FORNICATE has 1 sense:

1. have sex without being married

  Familiarity information: FORNICATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORNICATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they fornicate    ... he / she / it fornicates   
Past simple: fornicated   
Past participle: fornicated   
-ing form: fornicating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have sex without being married

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "fornicate" is one way to...):

bang; be intimate; bed; bonk; do it; eff; fuck; get it on; get laid; have a go at it; have intercourse; have it away; have it off; have sex; hump; jazz; know; lie with; love; make love; make out; roll in the hay; screw; sleep together; sleep with (have sexual intercourse with)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fornicate"):

swing (engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends)

whore (have unlawful sex with a whore)

wench (frequent prostitutes)

bed-hop; bedhop; sleep around (be sexually active with more than one partner)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

fornication (voluntary sexual intercourse between persons not married to each other)

fornicator (someone who commits adultery or fornication)