fornication
/ˌfɔɹnɪˈkeɪʃən/
fornication noun: sexual intercourse by people who are not married to each other, or which is considered illicit in another way.
Noun
fornication (countable and uncountable, plural fornications)
- Sexual intercourse by people who are not married to each other, or which is considered illicit in another way.
- FRIAR BARNARDINE. Thou hast committed—
BARABAS. Fornication: but that was in another country;
And besides, the wench is dead.c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published... - I am the sister of one Claudio,
Condemned upon the act of fornication
To lose his head, condemned by Angeloc. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- FRIAR BARNARDINE. Thou hast committed—
- Sexual intercourse in general; sex.
- For a moment he stared at the back of the Lascar, wondering if he were the youth that he had disturbed during fornication with his Engineer, then dismissed all thoughts of the previous night, he was getting old, and suspicious, what did it matter […]2012, Geoffrey Kennell, The Upper Crust, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 185
fornication meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
fornication in Hindi
- fornication
- ज़िना zinā
fornication in Tamil
- திருமணமாகாத இருவரிடையே உடலுறவு, கூடா ஒழுக்கம், கற்பின்மை, விபச்சாரம்
fornication in Urdu
- fornication
- زنا zinā
fornication in Malayalam
- adultery, extramarital sex, extramarital relations
- രഹസ്യവേഴ്ച, വിവാഹേതരലെെംഗികബന്ധം, വിവേകരഹിതമായ ലെെംഗികബന്ധം, അവിവാഹിതരുടെ രഹസ്യവേഴ്ച, ഒളിശയനം, പരസ്ത്രീഗമനം
More languagesFewer languages
- fornication in Tagalog
- pakikiapid
- fornication in Arabic
- زِنًى zinan, سِفَاح sifāḥ
- fornication in Indonesian
- fornikasi, zinah
- fornication in Persian
- زنا zenâ
Examples of fornication in a sentence
- Draw not near unto fornication; for it is wickedness, and an evil way1734, George Sale, transl., Alcoran of Mohammed, 17:32:
- Thus, at Roxbury, 1678, Hanna Hopkins was censured in the church for fornication with her husband before marriage and for fleeing from justice into Rhode Island.2013, Arthur W. Calhoun, The American Family in the Colonial Period, Courier Corporation, →ISBN:
Forms of fornication
| plural | fornications |
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Origin of fornication
From Middle English fornicacioun, from Old French fornicacion, from Latin fornicātiō, from fornix (“brothel”).
Words formed from fornication
Words that rhyme with fornication
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Questions about fornication
- What does fornication mean?
- Fornication means sexual intercourse by people who are not married to each other, or which is considered illicit in another way.
- What is fornication in Hindi?
- Fornication in Hindi is ज़िना (zinā). See Fornication meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use fornication in a sentence?
- Draw not near unto fornication; for it is wickedness, and an evil way
- What part of speech is fornication?
- Fornication is a noun.
- How do you pronounce fornication?
- Fornication is pronounced /ˌfɔɹnɪˈkeɪʃən/.
- What is the plural of fornication?
- The plural of fornication is fornications.
Words near fornication in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fornication (page history and authors); ज़िना (Hindi) (page history and authors); fornication (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); زنا (Urdu) (page history and authors); fornication (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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