coition
/kəʊˈɪʃ(ə)n/
coition noun: sexual intercourse.
Noun
coition (usually uncountable, plural coitions)
- Sexual intercourse.
- their coition is made by supersaliency, like that of horses, as we are informed by some who have beheld them in that act1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
- A mare put to a stallion fell dead at the end of coition.1907, Byron Robinson, The Abdominal and Pelvic Brain with Automatic Visceral Ganglia, page 233
- Synonyms:
- coitus
coition meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Telugu and Kannada
coition in Tamil
- கல்வி, செய்யுறு புணர்ச்சி, பாலுறவு, புணர்ச்சி
coition in Urdu
- مباشرت
coition in Telugu
- coition, sexual intercourse
- సంభోగము sambhōgamu, మైథునము maithunamu, సురతము suratamu
- coition, copulation
- రతము ratamu, రతి rati
coition in Kannada
- ಸುಂದು
More languagesFewer languages
- coition in Odia
- ରହ raha
Examples of coition in a sentence
- Sex without the consummating act of coition is never quite sex, in human relationships: just as a eunuch is never quite a man.1961, D. H. Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconscious:
- All sages and physicians agree in saying that the ills which afflict man originate with the abuse of coition.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 91:
Synonyms of coition
Forms of coition
| plural | coitions |
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Origin of coition
From the oblique stem of Latin coitiō.
Words formed from coition
Questions about coition
- What does coition mean?
- Coition means sexual intercourse.
- What is coition in Tamil?
- Coition in Tamil is கல்வி, செய்யுறு புணர்ச்சி, பாலுறவு. See Coition meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use coition in a sentence?
- Sex without the consummating act of coition is never quite sex, in human relationships: just as a eunuch is never quite a man.
- What part of speech is coition?
- Coition is a noun.
- How do you pronounce coition?
- Coition is pronounced /kəʊˈɪʃ(ə)n/ (UK).
- What is the plural of coition?
- The plural of coition is coitions.
Words near coition in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: coition (page history and authors); coition (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); coition (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); మైథునము (Telugu) (page history and authors); coition (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ରହ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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