English noun: intercourse |
1. | intercourse (communication) communication between individuals |
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| Synonyms | social intercourse |
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| Broader (hypernym) | intercommunication |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | communion, sharing |
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2. | intercourse (act) 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 |
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| Synonyms | carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, congress, copulation, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation |
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| Broader (hypernym) | sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | ass, criminal congress, defloration, fuck, fucking, hank panky, nookie, nooky, penetration, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag, shtup, unlawful carnal knowledge |
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| Part holonym | insemination |
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