Usually means: Engage in consensual sexual intercourse.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word fornicate:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. fornicate: Merriam-Webster
  2. fornicate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fornicate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fornicate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fornicate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fornicate: Wordnik
  7. fornicate: Wiktionary
  8. fornicate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. fornicate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. fornicate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. fornicate: Dictionary.com
  12. fornicate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Fornicate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. fornicate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. fornicate: Rhymezone
  16. Fornicate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. fornicate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. fornicate: FreeDictionary.org
  19. fornicate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. fornicate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. fornicate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. fornicate: Wordnik
  23. fornicate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  24. fornicate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fornicate: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. fornicate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fornicate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. fornicate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. fornicate: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bryological (No longer online)

(Note: See fornicated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Shaped like an arch or vault; resembling a fornix.
verb:  (intransitive) To engage in fornication.

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