1.
[syn: sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sexual intercourse
n 1: 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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "sexual intercourse":
act of love, adultery, amorous dalliance, aphrodisia, ass, balling,
billing and cooing, bundling, caressing, carnal knowledge, climax,
cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, commerce,
congress, connection, copula, copulation, coupling, cuddling,
dalliance, diddling, fondling, fornication, hugging, intercourse,
intimacy, kissing, lollygagging, lovemaking, making it with,
marital relations, marriage act, mating, meat, necking, nestling,
nuzzling, onanism, orgasm, ovum, pareunia, petting, procreation,
relations, screwing, sex, sex act, sexual climax, sexual commerce,
sexual congress, sexual relations, sexual union, sleeping with,
snuggling, sperm, spooning, venery