INTERCOURSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intercourse mean? 

• INTERCOURSE (noun)
  The noun INTERCOURSE has 2 senses:

1. communication between individuals

2. sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur

  Familiarity information: INTERCOURSE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERCOURSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Communication between individuals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

intercourse; social intercourse

Hypernyms ("intercourse" is a kind of...):

intercommunication (mutual communication; communication with each other)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intercourse"):

communion; sharing (sharing thoughts and feelings)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

carnal knowledge; coition; coitus; copulation; intercourse; relation; sex act; sexual congress; sexual intercourse; sexual relation

Hypernyms ("intercourse" is a kind of...):

sex; sex activity; sexual activity; sexual practice (activities associated with sexual intercourse)

Meronyms (parts of "intercourse"):

insemination (the introduction of semen into the genital tract of a female)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intercourse"):

defloration (the act of depriving a woman of her virginity (especially by rupturing the hymen through sexual intercourse))

ass; fuck; fucking; nookie; nooky; piece of ass; piece of tail; roll in the hay; screw; screwing; shag; shtup (slang for sexual intercourse)

hank panky (illicit sexual intercourse)

penetration (the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman)

criminal congress; unlawful carnal knowledge (forbidden or tabu sexual intercourse between individuals)

 Context examples 

I dare say I was not reasonable in carrying with me hopes of an intercourse at all like that of Mansfield.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) Over the past four weeks during sexual intercourse, how often were you able to maintain your erection after you had penetrated (entered) your partner?

(IIEF - Able to Maintain Your Erection After You Had Penetrated Your Partner, NCI Thesaurus)

International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) Over the past four weeks when you attempted sexual intercourse, how often were you able to penetrate (enter) your partner?

(IIEF - Able to Penetrate Your Partner, NCI Thesaurus)

International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) Over the past four weeks when you had sexual stimulation or intercourse, how often did you ejaculate?

(IIEF - How Often Did You Ejaculate, NCI Thesaurus)

International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) Over the past four weeks how much have you enjoyed sexual intercourse?

(IIEF - How Much Have You Enjoyed Sexual Intercourse, NCI Thesaurus)

A response about an individual's erections being firm enough for intercourse.

(Firm Enough for Intercourse, NCI Thesaurus)

A sexual disorder in which a woman fails to achieve orgasm during sexual intercourse.

(Female Orgasmic Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

It took the place of like, which latter had been the highest feeling that thrilled him in his intercourse with the gods.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I remember his wail at the meeting, which began: 'In fifty years experience of scientific intercourse—'

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How the long stage would pass; how it was to affect their manners; what was to be their sort of intercourse, she could not foresee.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)