Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun missionary_position

1 sense of missionary position

Sense 1
missionary position -- (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)
       => position, posture, attitude -- (the arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender")