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noun
The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; the state of being completed; completion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The first act of sexual intercourse in a relationship, particularly the first such act following marriage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The achievement of perfection.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Termination; the end (as of the world or of life); an end or resulting state.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The date at which the mortgagor becomes contractually obligated to the mortgagee in a real estate transaction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: law
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noun
the act of bringing to completion or fruition
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: completion, culmination, closing, windup, mop up
Narrower terms: realization, realisation, fruition, orgasm, climax, sexual climax, coming, fulfillment, fulfilment
noun
the completion of marriage by sexual intercourse
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: completion, culmination, closing, windup, mop up
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin summa Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin cōnsummō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin cōnsummātiōbor. English consummation Borrowed from Latin cōnsummātiō.
Across languages
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