'Intercourse' definitions:
Definition of 'intercourse'
From: WordNet
noun
Communication between individuals [syn: intercourse, social intercourse]
noun
The act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur [syn: sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge]
Definition of 'Intercourse'
From: GCIDE
- Intercourse \In"ter*course\, n. [Formerly entercourse, OF. entrecours commerce, exchange, F. entrecours a reciprocal right on neighboring lands, L. intercursus a running between, fr. intercurrere to run between. See Inter-, and Course.]
- 1. A commingling; intimate connection or dealings between persons or nations, as in common affairs and civilities, in correspondence or trade; communication; commerce; especially, interchange of thought and feeling; association; communion. [1913 Webster]
- This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Same as sexual intercourse. [PJC]
- Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition; copulation, especially between humans.
- Syn: Communication; connection; commerce; communion; fellowship; familiarity; acquaintance. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'intercourse'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accord,
- act of love,
- addition,
- adjunct,
- adultery,
- affairs,
- affiliation,
- affinity,
- agglomeration,
- agglutination,
- aggregation,
- alliance,
- alternation,
- answer,
- aphrodisia,
- approximation,
- articulation,
- ass,
- assemblage,
- association,
- balance of trade,
- balling,
- big business,
- bond,
- bracketing,
- business,
- business dealings,
- carnal knowledge,
- climax,
- closeness,
- clustering,
- coaction,
- cohabitation,
- coition,
- coitus,
- coitus interruptus,
- collegiality,
- colloquial discourse,
- colloquy,
- combination,
- commerce,
- commercial affairs,
- commercial relations,
- communication,
- communion,
- community,
- complementary distribution,
- concatenation,
- concourse,
- concurrence,
- confluence,
- congeries,
- conglomeration,
- congress,
- conjugation,
- conjunction,
- connectedness,
- connection,
- contact,
- contiguity,
- contrariety,
- convergence,
- conversation,
- converse,
- conversing,
- cooperation,
- copula,
- copulation,
- correspondence,
- coupling,
- dealing,
- dealings,
- deduction,
- diddling,
- discourse,
- disjunction,
- engagement,
- ESP,
- exchange,
- fair trade,
- fellowship,
- filiation,
- fornication,
- free trade,
- gathering,
- give-and-take,
- homology,
- hookup,
- industry,
- information,
- interaction,
- interchange,
- intercommunication,
- intercommunion,
- interlacing,
- interlinking,
- interlocution,
- intermeshing,
- interplay,
- intertwining,
- interweaving,
- interworking,
- intimacy,
- joinder,
- joining,
- jointure,
- junction,
- knotting,
- liaison,
- linguistic intercourse,
- link,
- linkage,
- linking,
- lovemaking,
- making it with,
- marital relations,
- market,
- marketing,
- marriage,
- marriage act,
- mating,
- meat,
- meeting,
- mercantile business,
- merchantry,
- merger,
- merging,
- mesh,
- meshing,
- message,
- multilateral trade,
- mutual attraction,
- nearness,
- onanism,
- orgasm,
- ovum,
- pairing,
- pareunia,
- procreation,
- propinquity,
- proximity,
- quid pro quo,
- rapping,
- rapport,
- reciprocal trade,
- relatedness,
- relation,
- relations,
- relationship,
- reply,
- response,
- restraint of trade,
- screwing,
- seesaw,
- sex,
- sex act,
- sexual climax,
- sexual commerce,
- sexual congress,
- sexual intercourse,
- sexual relations,
- sexual union,
- similarity,
- sleeping with,
- small business,
- social activity,
- social intercourse,
- social relations,
- speaking,
- speech,
- speech circuit,
- speech situation,
- sperm,
- splice,
- symbiosis,
- sympathy,
- talking,
- telepathy,
- the business world,
- the marketplace,
- tie,
- tie-in,
- tie-up,
- tit for tat,
- touch,
- trade,
- traffic,
- truck,
- two-way communication,
- unification,
- unilateral trade,
- union,
- venery,
- verbal intercourse,
- yoking