fornication
/ˌfɔːnɪˈkeɪʃn
/noun [mass noun] formal or humorous
Sexual intercourse between people not married to each other: laws forbidding adultery and fornication...
- Their talk is adultery and fornication, dishonesty, greed and deceit, and easy money.
- She would have opened the door to the house around six thirty, which would have coincided with the sins of adultery and fornication being committed on the couch at Mr. Armstrong's house.
- So widespread is the understanding that, when a priest or bishop's adultery or fornication comes to light, clergy and laity are equally scandalized.
Synonyms
extramarital sex, extramarital relations, adultery, infidelity, unfaithfulness, cuckoldry;
affair, liaison, sexual intercourse, sex, intercourse, sexual relations, coupling
informal hanky-panky, a bit on the side, bonking, rumpy pumpy, a bit of the other, how's your father
South African informal pata-pata
archaic carnal knowledge, congress, commerce
- household stuff
- household suffrage
- household sugar
- household troops
- household word
- householdy
- house-hunt
- house-hunter
- house husband
- house in multiple occupation
- house jobber
- house journal
- housekeep
- housekeeper
- housekeeperly
- housekeeping
- housekeeping allowance
- housekeeping book
- housekeeping goods
- housekeeping keys
- housekeeping money
- house-knacker
- housel
- house lady
- house lamb