/ English Dictionary

FORNICATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have sex without being married

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "fornicate" is one way to...):

bang; be intimate; bed; bonk; do it; eff; fuck; get it on; get laid; have a go at it; have intercourse; have it away; have it off; have sex; hump; jazz; know; lie with; love; make love; make out; roll in the hay; screw; sleep together; sleep with (have sexual intercourse with)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fornicate"):

swing (engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends)

whore (have unlawful sex with a whore)

wench (frequent prostitutes)

bed-hop; bedhop; sleep around (be sexually active with more than one partner)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

fornication (voluntary sexual intercourse between persons not married to each other)

fornicator (someone who commits adultery or fornication)

Credits

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE