sex
activities associated with sexual intercourse
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,256 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,776 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- activities associated with sexual intercourse also: sexual activity, sexual practice, sex activity they had sex in the back seat
- either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided the war between the sexes
- all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses also: sexual urge he wanted a better sex lifethe film contained no sex or violence
- the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles also: gender, sexuality she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus
verb
- stimulate sexually also: arouse, excite, turn on, wind up This movie usually arouses the male audience
- tell the sex (of young chickens)
sex in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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He wondered, too, about the other sex.
Where the Blue Begins · Christopher Morley · Chapter 1
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Ours was a friendship almost untouched by sex.
The Little Nugget · P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse · Chapter 1
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I say lovest, The greatest of thy sex excels thee not!
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 2
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I confess, that expression, “either sex,” ran a little thick, as I may say, from my pen.
Elsie Venner · Oliver Wendell Holmes · Chapter 2
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She explained to me more than once that in her profession she had found her sex a dreadful drawback.
Greville Fane · Henry James · Chapter 1