erection

1. (uncountable) The act of building or putting up or together of something.Synonyms: building, constructionuncountable

2. (countable) Anything erected or built.Examples: "The Empire State Building was once the world's tallest erection."; "If any serious number of deck erections have been left unfaired, these percentages will be too low."Synonyms: building, constructioncountable

3. (uncountable or countable, ecclesiastical) Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities.Examples: "There is some obscurity attaching to the only other one of those alleged erections of parishes, the case of Foot Dee, near Aberdeen."; "If the erection of a society is made with pontifical authority, then the society is one of pontifical legal status from its inception."; "Concerns for its usefulness to the particular church and the institute should be seriously considered by the diocesan bishop and the major superior before the canonical erection of a house takes place."countableuncountable

4. (uncountable, physiology) The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.Examples: "I think that the case also demonstrates some singular aspects of the penis as a narrator of tales, specifically the way in which the erection of a penis falls outside a man's conscious control and therefore threatens a carefully constructed master legal narrative in which bodily self-control graphically represents the self-government contemplated by a democratic legal society."; "There are men who say they cannot bear to show themselves naked before women unless in a state of erection; and indeed through erection the flesh becomes activity, potency, […]"; "A marriage was only consummated via erection, penetration, and insemination intra vas."uncountable

5. (uncountable, physiology, of a penis or clitoris) The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.Examples: "[…] but our experienc'd matron very soon, by chafing it with her hands, brought it to swell to that size and erection I had before seen it up to."; "Older men typically require longer periods of time to achieve erection and reach orgasm."; "A very rare complication is priapism, where the penis maintains its erection for many hours."uncountable

6. (countable) A penis or clitoris that is erect.Examples: "He placed his newspaper on his lap to hide his erection."; "Nothing is more short-lived than the erection; like the crocus of spring, it is there for a moment, and then it is gone; one moment the penis is small, soft, and insignificant, and then in the next it is hard, rigid, and three and four times its previous size."; "The surge of hormones during puberty means you might have lots of erections, even when you don't want them—like during school."Synonyms: babymaker, boner, bone, bonk-on, bonny, chubby, erection, fattycountable