Erection

Noun

 * 1)  The act of building or putting up or together of something; construction.
 * 2)  Anything erected or built.
 * 3)  The physiological process by which a penis becomes erect by being engorged with blood.
 * 4) A penis/clitoris that has become rigid.

Synonyms

 * (act of building): building, construction
 * (anything erected or built): building, construction
 * (penis made rigid): boner, hard-on or hardon , stiffy , woodie or woody
 * (penis made rigid): See also Thesaurus:erection

Related terms

 * erect
 * erector

Thesaurus
Dymaxion house, White House, adobe house, apotheosis, architecture, ascent, assembly, assumption, beatification, building, canonization, casa, casting, cliff dwelling, composition, construct, construction, consulate, conversion, country house, country seat, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, dacha, deanery, deification, devising, dwelling house, edifice, elaboration, elevation, embassy, enshrinement, erecting, escalation, establishment, exaltation, extraction, fabric, fabrication, farm, farmhouse, fashioning, formation, forming, formulation, framing, growing, hall, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, heaving up, height, house, houseboat, lake dwelling, lifting, living machine, lodge, lofting, machining, making, manor house, manse, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, mining, molding, packaged house, parsonage, penthouse, pile, prefab, prefabricated house, prefabrication, preparation, presidential palace, processing, producing, pyramid, raising, ranch house, rearing, rectory, refining, roof, shaping, skyscraper, smelting, sod house, split-level, standing on end, structure, superstructure, sursum corda, tower, town house, upbuoying, upcast, upheaval, uplift, uplifting, upping, upraising, uprearing, upthrow, upthrust, vicarage, workmanship

Etymology
From Latin erectio, noun of action from perfect passive participle erectus, from verb erigere, from suffix e-, out of, + regere, + action suffix -io

Translations

 * Finnish:, pystytys
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Italian:


 * Macedonian: подигање
 * Russian: сооружение, возведение,  ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Greek:, ,


 * Albanian: erekcion
 * Arabic:
 * Azeri: ereksiya
 * Catalan: erecció
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:, rejsning
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: ereksi
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: エレクション,
 * Korean:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:, дигање
 * Maltese:
 * Norwegian: ereksjon,,  reisning
 * Persian: (shagh kardan),
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: प्रहर्ष
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: స్తంభన (stambhana)
 * Thai: การแข็งตัวขององคชาต
 * Turkish: ereksiyon, sertleşme
 * Vietnamese: cương cứng

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