MISSIONARY POSITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does missionary position mean? 

• MISSIONARY POSITION (noun)
  The noun MISSIONARY POSITION has 1 sense:

1. a position for sexual intercourse; a man and woman lie facing each other with the man on top; so-called because missionaries thought it the proper position for primitive peoples

  Familiarity information: MISSIONARY POSITION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISSIONARY POSITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A position for sexual intercourse; a man and woman lie facing each other with the man on top; so-called because missionaries thought it the proper position for primitive peoples

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("missionary position" is a kind of...):

attitude; position; posture (the arrangement of the body and its limbs)