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say it: seks
sex is a noun and verb meaning "activities associated with sexual intercourse". It carries 6 recorded senses.
activities associated with sexual intercourse
“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
“he wanted a better sex life”
“the film contained no sex or violence”
the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
“she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus”
tell the sex (of young chickens)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sex come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.