noun
Meaning 1
Sexual intercourse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, uncountable
Topics: law
Examples
- to have carnal knowledge of someone
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
carnal knowledge
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noun
Meaning 2
the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
Narrower terms: defloration, fuck, fucking, screw, screwing, ass, nooky, nookie, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, shag, shtup, hank panky, penetration, unlawful carnal knowledge, criminal congress
History
Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: полово сношение (polovo snošenie) — archaic term for sexual intercourse
- Chinese Mandarin: 性交 (xìngjiāo) — archaic term for sexual intercourse
- Dutch: gemeenschap — archaic term for sexual intercourse
- Finnish: lihallinen yhteys — archaic term for sexual intercourse
- German: Beiwohnung — archaic term for sexual intercourse
- Irish: fios collaí — archaic term for sexual intercourse
- Italian: domestichezza — archaic term for sexual intercourse
- Italian: rapporto carnale — archaic term for sexual intercourse
- Spanish: ayuntamiento carnal — archaic term for sexual intercourse
- Spanish: trato carnal — archaic term for sexual intercourse