Meaning

5 senses

  1. (ambitransitive)To kiss.

  2. To touch so as to have the same tangent and curvature at the point of contact.

  3. (intransitive)To make contact.

  4. (Vedic)To perform osculation.

  5. To form a connecting link between two genera.

    be intermediate between two taxonomic groups

Origin

Borrowed from Latin ōsculātus, perfect active participle of ōsculor (“to kiss”) (see -ate

Borrowed from Latin ōsculātus, perfect active participle of ōsculor (“to kiss”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ōsculum (“a kiss”) + -or (verbal suffix), from ōs (“mouth”) + -culum (diminutive suffix). See also oscillate.

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Forms

osculates, osculating, osculated, osculated
Base formosculate · to osculate
3rd person singularosculates
Present participleosculating
Past simpleosculated
Past participleosculated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyosculate
he, she, itosculates

Past simpleLesson

all personsosculated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave osculated
he, she, ithas osculated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill osculate

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.:snogkissbuss

Word family

7 related words
Relatedosculationosculator
Derivedhyperosculateinosculateinterosculateosculatingosculatory

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
orthographyoryxoscillateosmosisospreyostensiblyC2ostentation
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