Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Dealings or communications between persons or groups.
- n. Sexual intercourse.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Communication between persons or places; frequent or habitual meeting or contact of one person with another, or of a number of persons with others, in conversation, trade, travel, etc.; physical interchange; reciprocal dealing: as, the intercourse between town and country.
- n. Mental or spiritual interchange; reciprocal exchange of ideas or feelings; intercommunion.
Wiktionary
- n. Communication, conversation.
- n. Dealings between countries.
- n. Dealings with people, including commerce and trade.
- n. Sexual intercourse.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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.
- n. Same as sexual intercourse.
WordNet 3.0
- n. communication between individuals
- n. 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
Etymologies
- Middle English entercours, commercial dealings, from Old French entrecours, from Latin intercursus, a running between, interposition, from past participle of intercurrere, to mingle with : inter-, inter- + currere, to run; see kers- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I was staring, by now, with my mouth hanging open like an inbred, corn-fed white woman at a Sarah Palin rally demanding that the word intercourse be taken out of the dictionary, and taxes lowered, while escalating the war in some far-off country that doesn’t have the sense to be Christian.”
“Men are more likely to experience orgasm when vaginal intercourse is involved, while women are more likely to reach orgasm when they engage in variety of acts, including oral sex, said researcher Debra Herbenick, lead author of the section about women's sex lives.”
“Men are more likely to orgasm when sex includes vaginal intercourse; women are more likely to orgasm when they engage in a variety of sex acts and when oral sex or vaginal intercourse is included.”
The Washington Post: Study reveals Americans' sexual activity, condom use
“Malaita, the profit and loss account of social intercourse is calculated in homicides.”
“The right of people in this country to decide by mutual agreement whether and under what conditions they consent to sexual intercourse is fundamental.”
Petition to defer any bill on prostitution until after the next general election
“His ire and condemnation extends to heterosexuals, unless the goal of their sexual intercourse is reproduction.”
“I find the idea that intercourse is the most important/special thing I can offer insulting and demeaning!”
Adventures in conservative media (Laura Ingraham edition) - Feministing
“Translated it means, sexual intercourse is only performed for reproduction of the species.”
Think Progress » CPAC Conference Dissolves Into Right-Wing Civil War Over Gay Rights
“Would you allow lesbians to marry, since anal intercourse is probably pretty rare among lesbians?”
“I think the Church condemns surrogacy for one reason because it separates the act of intercourse from the pregnancy and birth.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘intercourse’.
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Words for Literary Erotica
A selection of words for the genre, Literary Erotica.
erotica, love, sex, heterosexual..., heterotica, romantic, romance..., humanism, humans, fiction, short st..., sexuality, vanill..., desire, longing, ..., husband, wife, lo..., men, women and 14 more...
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Woody words
woodruff, woodwind, Woodstock, woodchuck, Sherwood, gorn, sausage, caribou, intercourse, pert, botty, thighs and 6 more...
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connexion
link, joining, junction, concatenation, hookup, isthmus, ligament, articulation, node, tie, relation, intersection and 86 more...
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jagosaurus's favorites
Words I like mostly because of the way they sound and feel.
ticonderoga, petulance, snark, estimable, chickahominy, feline, gezellig, gneiss, shit, willy-nilly, shelter, coda and 366 more...
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Strange Pennsylvania Place Names
Kad, you've created a monster. ;-)
blue ball, intercourse, scalp level, bird-in-hand, jugtown, stalker, quiggleville, climax, mars, paradise, conshohocken, king of prussia and 217 more...
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Let's talk about sex
A collection of words about doing the nasty.
prurient, odalisque, soubrette, gravid, lochia, xenogamy, syngamy, zygote, pintle, hexaploid, seminal, hetaera and 232 more...
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sexual feelings
words describing the sexual parts of life
snog, shag, copulate, intercourse, paraphilia, carnal, fetish, fornicate, abstinence, foreplay, coitus, chastity and 119 more...
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♡LOVE and things like it♡
dedicated to my man Steven, without whom i would be addicted to drugs, lying in a gutter, hating myself, or hooking somewhere :)
affectionate, amative, amatory, amiable, ammophilous, amorous, ardent, attached to, attracted to, beloved, bewitching, bitten and 404 more...
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soul mate
soul mate, soul mates, soul, portishead, wounded, death, depression, hurt, the cure, pain, longing, rat and 424 more...
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Heterotica
pertains to heterosexuals
heterotica, erotica, love, literary erotica, intercourse, coitus, copulation, heteronormative
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18th century british
from Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno, Richard Brinsley Sheridan's School for Scandal ...
intimacy, piety, partiality, sentimental, plasters, mawkish, drab, spurious, sententious, bitters, folly, virtue and 132 more...
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MISSGIVEN TITLES
words that i might put in my projects's titlte
medium, effigy, cineclub, ∞, guide, biscuit, voodoo, friends, spirit, palindrome, premium, minimus and 73 more...
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the smut-list
celibacy, rubber, coitus, foreplay, phallus, bukkake, cunnilingus, frottage, bugger, erotica, condom, booby and 63 more...
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renorover's Words
ludicrous, orgasm, photosynthesis, postmortem, clitoris, hallucinatory, incredulous, irascible, intercourse, fuck, nebulous, cantankerous and 11 more...
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flyrobynfly's Words
timer, word, curator, limited, what, love, torture, speed, compassion, terror, romance, seed and 55 more...
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Words i could use in my book
promotion, preferment, amuse, defence, oppose, rape, argument, protect, attack, sex, intercourse, sexual intercourse and 23 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for intercourse.
milosrdenstvi For me there is no thought of intercourse (use, not reference) without corresponding memories of this brilliant Python sketch. Feb 18, 2013
Prolagus According to Weirdnet, I haven't had one in quite a while. Who knew! Feb 17, 2013
bilby Sounds hard to do while running (see etymology). Feb 16, 2013
ruzuzu Also, is intercommunion the same as communion (but with more letters)? Feb 16, 2013
ruzuzu Weirdnet's definition seems pretty clinical until you get to the mysterious word "excited." Feb 16, 2013
ValentineBonnaire Intercourse is an old fashioned word for fucking or coitus. Feb 15, 2013
ValentineBonnaire The art below? Does not show humans. Feb 15, 2013
brtom I must inform you that love has no share whatever in the intercourse between Mr. Surface and me.
Sheridan, School for Scandal Jan 5, 2008