noun
Meaning 1
the act of deflowering
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: deflowerment
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
defloration
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noun
Meaning 2
the act of depriving a woman of her virginity (especially by rupturing the hymen through sexual intercourse)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge
noun
Meaning 3
an act that despoils the innocence or beauty of something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: damage, harm, hurt, scathe
History
Etymology
From Old French desfloracion (French défloration), from Latin defloratio.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: تَصَرُّف (taṣarruf) — the act of deflowering
- Bulgarian: обезчестяване (obezčestjavane) — the act of deflowering
- Dutch: ontmaagding — the act of deflowering
- Finnish: neitsyyden vieminen — the act of deflowering
- French: défloration — the act of deflowering
- Galician: desfloración — the act of deflowering
- German: Entjungferung — the act of deflowering
- German: Defloration — the act of deflowering
- Gujarati: કૌમાર્યહરણ (kaumāryahraṇ) — the act of deflowering
- Gujarati: કૌમાર્યભંગ (kaumāryabhaṅg) — the act of deflowering
- Hindi: कौमार्य भंग करना (kaumārya bhaṅg karnā) — the act of deflowering
- Hindi: नथ उतारना (nath utārnā) — the act of deflowering
- Hindi: चीरा उतारना (cīrā utārnā) — the act of deflowering
- Hindi: तसर्रुफ़ (tasarruf) — the act of deflowering
- Italian: deflorazione — the act of deflowering
- Macedonian: обесчестување (obesčestuvanje) — the act of deflowering
- Persian: تَصَرُّف — the act of deflowering
- Polish: defloracja — the act of deflowering
- Portuguese: desfloração — the act of deflowering
- Portuguese: desfloramento — the act of deflowering
- Russian: дефлора́ция (deflorácija) — the act of deflowering
- Russian: лише́ние девстве́нности (lišénije devstvénnosti) — the act of deflowering
- Urdu: تَصَرُّف (tasarruf) — the act of deflowering