| 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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