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Definition: Coition |
CoitionNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "coition" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Etymology: Coition \Co*i"tion\, noun. [Latin expression coitio, from coire to come together; co- ire to go.]. (references) |
Synonyms: CoitionSynonyms: carnal knowledge (n), coitus (n), congress (n), copulation (n), intercourse (n), relation (n), sex act (n), sexual congress (n), sexual intercourse (n), sexual relation (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Junction | Coition, copulation;sex, sexual congress,sexual conjunction, sexual intercourse, love-making. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Coition |
| English words defined with "coition": sexual intercourse ♦ Venery. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "coition": To LINE. (references) |
| "Coition" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Coition" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
coition | 52 |
coition coitus copulation treading | 3 |
coition sex | 3 |
coition girl | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "coition"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | جماع (coitus, congress, copulation, intercourse, lay, love making), إتصال جنسي (copulation, sexual intercourse). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съвъкупление (copulation), коитус. (various references) | |
Danish | coitus (coitus), samleje (coitus, concubitus, sexual intercourse, sexual union), parring (coitus, conjugation, copulation, covering, matching, mating, pairing, service, serving, sexual intercourse, sexual union, tupping), kopulation (coitus, conjugation, copulation, pairing, sexual intercourse, sexual union), kønslig forening (coitus, sexual intercourse, sexual union). (various references) | |
Dutch | copulatio (coitus, concubitus, copulation, sexual intercourse, sexual union), copulatie (coitus, concubitus, conjugation, copulation, pairing, sexual intercourse, sexual union), congressus (coitus, concubitus, sexual intercourse, sexual union), concubitus (coitus, concubitus, sexual intercourse, sexual union), coitus (coitus, concubitus, copulation, sexual intercourse, sexual union), coïtus (sexual union), geslachtsgemeenschap (coitus, concubitus, copulation, sexual intercourse, sexual union), bijslaap (coitus, concubitus, copulation, sexual intercourse, sexual union), býslaap. (various references) | |
Esperanto | koito. (various references) | |
Faeroese | samlega. (various references) | |
Farsi | مقاربت (Intercourse), جماع (Coitus, Copulation), امیزشی . (various references) | |
Finnish | sukupuoliyhdyntä (sexual intercourse). (various references) | |
French | coït (coitus). (various references) | |
German | geschlechtsverkehr (intercourse, intimacy, sex, sexual intercourse), koitus (coitus). (various references) | |
Greek | συνουσία (copulation, fornication, intercourse). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מש'ל (cohabitation, coitus, intercourse, sexual intercourse), ביא" (approach, arrival, coitus, coming, entrance, intercourse). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nemi érintkezés (coitus), közösülés (bang, coitus, copulation, coupling, crumpet, ficky-fick, futz, intercourse, mating, niggling, sexual intercourse). (various references) | |
Indonesian | senggama, persetubuhan (copulation), persenggamaan (copulation). (various references) | |
Italian | coito (coitus). (various references) | |
Manx | jibbag (human copulation, lay, sex, sexual intercourse). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oitioncay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | coito (coitus, copulation, coupling, intercourse), cópula carnal. (various references) | |
Russian | совокупление (coitus, copulation). (various references) | |
Spanish | coito (coitus, intercourse). (various references) | |
Swedish | coitus (coitus), samlag (coitus, copulation, it, love making, sex, sexual intercourse). (various references) | |
Thai | การร่วมประเว"ี (coitus, sex act). (various references) | |
Turkish | cinsel birleşme (coitus, conversation, copulation, sexual intercourse), çiftleşme (coitus, copulation, coupling, mating, pairing, rutting, tread). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | совокуплення. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự giao cấu (coitus, intercourse). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | concilii, conciliis, concilio, concilium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "coition": coitional, coitions. (additional references) | |
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"Coition" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ceation, ciation, Cichon, coaten, Coatian, coertion, cogition, Cointrin, colition, comtian, contio, Cowichan, cution, Kitione, Kritikon, ocation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "coition" (pronounced 'Co*i"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-i-n-o-o-t" | |
-2 letters: conto, ionic, ontic, tonic. | |
-3 letters: cion, coin, coni, coon, coot, icon, inti, into, onto, otic, toon. | |
-4 letters: con, coo, cot, ion, nit, noo, not, oot, tic, tin, ton, too. | |
-5 letters: in, it, no, on, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-i-n-o-o-t" | |
+1 letter: coitions, isotonic. | |
+2 letters: coalition, cognition, coitional, condition, cotillion, incognito, inotropic, octillion. | |
+3 letters: bilocation, carotinoid, coalitions, cogitation, cognitions, conditions, conniption, contrition, conviction, cotillions, endobiotic, incognitos, invocation, monolithic, nonfiction, octillions, outvoicing, picrotoxin, sonication, xenobiotic. | |
+4 letters: anisotropic, association, bilocations, bootlicking, cardiotonic, carotinoids, chondroitin, codirection, cogitations, cognitional, colligation, collimation, colonialist, combination, commination, comminution, competition, compilation, compositing, composition, conciliator, conditional, conditioned, conditioner, condottieri, confliction, conniptions, contritions, convictions, covariation, decondition, dislocation, endomitotic, excoriation, fornication, gnotobiotic, goitrogenic, gongoristic, goniometric, iconostasis, incommodity, inoculation, invocations, isotonicity, liposuction, mislocation, neologistic, nonfictions, officiation, optokinetic, oscillation, picrotoxins, pinocytosis, pinocytotic, recognition, recondition, rhizoctonia, sonications, xenobiotics. | |
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