What does "erection" mean?
The act of building or putting up or together of something.
Erection
noun
noun ·3 syllables ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: The act of building or putting up or together of something.
- Grammar: erection is listed as noun.
- Nearest alternatives: tumescence, boner, adobe house, apotheosis.
- Useful contrasts: collapse, deconstructions, demolishing.
- Usage evidence: A morning erection: Will it last only until I take a leak?
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of building or putting up or together of something. uncountable
- 2 the act of building or putting up wordnet
- 3 Anything erected or built. countable
"The Empire State Building was once the world's tallest erection."
- 4 a structure that has been erected wordnet
- 5 Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities. countable, uncountable
"There is some obscurity attaching to the only other one of those alleged erections of parishes, the case of Foot Dee, near Aberdeen."
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- 6 an erect penis wordnet
- 7 The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood. uncountable
"I think that the case also demonstrates some singular aspects of the penis as a narrator of tales, specifically the way in which the erection of a penis falls outside a man's conscious control and therefore threatens a carefully constructed master legal narrative in which bodily self-control graphically represents the self-government contemplated by a democratic legal society."
- 8 The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood. uncountable
"[…] but our experienc'd matron very soon, by chafing it with her hands, brought it to swell to that size and erection I had before seen it up to."
- 9 A penis or clitoris that is erect. countable
"He placed his newspaper on his lap to hide his erection."
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"A morning erection: Will it last only until I take a leak?"
Common questions
What is a synonym for "erection"?
Common synonyms include: tumescence, boner, adobe house, apotheosis, architecture, ascent.
How do you use "erection" in a sentence?
A morning erection: Will it last only until I take a leak?
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ērectiō, ērectiōnis, noun of action from perfect passive participle ērectus, from verb erigō, from prefix ē- (“out of”) + regō, + action suffix -iō.