Erection meaning

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(physiol.) A being or becoming rigid and erect by filling with blood; specif., such a condition of the penis or clitoris.
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The act of erecting.
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Something erected; a construction.
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An erecting or being erected.
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Something erected; structure, building, etc.
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The act of erecting.
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(uncountable) The act of building or putting up or together of something; construction.
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(countable) Anything erected or built.

The Empire State Building was once the world's tallest erection.

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(uncountable, physiology) The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.
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(uncountable, physiology, of a penis or clitoris) The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.
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(countable) A penis or clitoris that is erect.

He placed his newspaper on his lap to hide his erection.

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Erection is defined as an upright structure or building, or to the putting up of a building, or to a penis that has become hard and enlarged due to sexual arousal.

A tall skyscraper is an example of an erection.

The rigid state of a man's penis when he is sexually excited is an example of an erection.

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Origin of erection

  • From Latin erectio, noun of action from perfect passive participle erectus, from verb erigere, from prefix e- (“out of”) + regere, + action suffix -io.

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Erection Sentence Examples

  • "Bigger than this, bitch?" the American nerd demanded, shoving her against a building and riding his erection against her backside.

  • The other mosques, of which there are about thirty within the walls, excluding the chapels and places of prayer, are all of recent erection.

  • On the other side of the river, connected by a bridge of the 14th century, and another of modern erection, stands the suburb of Carrickbeg, in county Waterford, where an abbey was founded in 1336.

  • Before the erection of the Tay Bridge the town was the scene of much traffic, as the railway ferry from Tayport was then the customary access to Dundee from the south.

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