MAKE LOVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does make love mean? 

• MAKE LOVE (verb)
  The verb MAKE LOVE has 1 sense:

1. have sexual intercourse with

  Familiarity information: MAKE LOVE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAKE LOVE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have sexual intercourse with

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

have it off; sleep with; sleep together; screw; roll in the hay; make out; make love; love; lie with; know; jazz; hump; have sex; bang; have it away; have intercourse; have a go at it; get laid; get it on; fuck; eff; do it; bonk; bed; be intimate

Context example:

Were you ever intimate with this man?

Hypernyms (to "make love" is one way to...):

copulate; couple; mate; pair (engage in sexual intercourse)

Verb group:

make out; neck (kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make love"):

have; take (have sex with; archaic use)

fornicate (have sex without being married)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

La! Miss Dashwood, do you think people make love when any body else is by?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Yet he did not know how to make love to a girl like Ruth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was all right enough, down whence he had come, for youths and maidens to win each other by contact; but for the exalted personages up above on the heights to make love in similar fashion had seemed unthinkable.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)