erection

About 3.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act of building or putting up or together of something.
2. noun Anything erected or built.

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

3. noun Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities.
4. noun The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.
5. noun The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.
6. noun A penis or clitoris that is erect.

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

Similar words

hard-on erecting boner dysfunction raising facility fixture mounting set-up display

Often followed by

of and in is or was to at on

Word family

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