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Meaning of Copulation | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
kɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən

Definitions

  1. The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.
    countable
  2. Sexual procreation between a man and a woman or transfer of the sperm from male to female; usually applied to the mating process in nonhuman animals; coitus; coition.
    uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I quite correctly defined logical copulation by means [of] the copula of inclusion.”
“Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.”
“In the dusky streets around me ruled an innocent and open copulation. The entire town mated together, in the leafy bowers that had sprung up among the washing-machines and television sets in the shopping mall, on the settees and divans by the furniture store, in the tropical paradises of the suburban gardens.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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