fornication

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 fôr'nĭ-kā'shən

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Sexual intercourse by people who are not married to each other, or which is considered illicit in another way. countable,uncountable
    — FRIAR BARNARDINE. Thou hast committed— BARABAS. Fornication: but that was in another country; And besides, the wench is dead.
  2. Sexual intercourse in general; sex. colloquial,countable,uncountable
    — For a moment he stared at the back of the Lascar, wondering if he were the youth that he had disturbed during fornication with his Engineer, then dismissed all thoughts of the previous night, he was getting old, and suspicious, what did it matter […]

词形变化

fornications plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Californication fornicatory
相关词
fornicate

词源

From Middle English fornicacioun, from Old French fornicacion, from Latin fornicātiō, from fornix (“brothel”).
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