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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To engage in coitus or sexual intercourse.
  2. adj. Coupled; joined.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To join together.
  2. To unite as a pair; especially, to unite sexually.
  3. Joined.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To engage in sexual intercourse.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Joined; associated; coupled.
  2. adj. Joining subject and predicate; copulative.
  3. v. To unite in sexual intercourse; to come together in the act of generation.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. engage in sexual intercourse

Etymologies

  1. Latin cōpulāre, cōpulāt-, to join together, from cōpula, link.

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