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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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 [syn: sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Latin, from coire Date: 1845 physical union of male and female genitalia accompanied by rhythmic movements ; sexual intercourse 1 — compare orgasm • coital adjective • coitally adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Med. sexual intercourse. Phrases and idioms: coitus interruptus sexual intercourse in which the penis is withdrawn before ejaculation. Derivatives: coital adj. Etymology: L (as COITION)

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Coitus is sexual intercourse. (TECHNICAL)

Moby Thesaurus

act of love, adultery, aphrodisia, ass, balling, carnal knowledge, climax, cohabitation, coition, coitus interruptus, commerce, congress, connection, copula, copulation, coupling, diddling, fornication, intercourse, intimacy, lovemaking, making it with, marital relations, marriage act, mating, meat, onanism, orgasm, ovum, pareunia, procreation, relations, screwing, sex, sex act, sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union, sleeping with, sperm, venery