intercourse
- noun
- /ˈɪntərˌkɔrs/
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- And so we did not have sexual intercourse with each other until the first night of our marriage.
- sexual intercourse
- vaginal intercourse
- unprotected intercourse
I know they did some sexual things but he claims they never had full blown intercourse.
- I know they did some sexual things but he claims they never had full blown intercourse.
- You can have pain in the OR pressure in your pelvic cavity, including pain with intercourse.
- Well, vasectomies are done to help prevent you from having subsequent children with vaginal intercourse, but they're not.
- And those things cannot be replicated with penetrative intercourse of any kind or, you know, manual intercourse with another person.
- She screamed out that sexual intercourse is the evil of the world.
- Me and Andrew had intercourse last night.
- What I mean by that is that man may only see cheating as sexual intercourse with another woman.
- It is filled with Diddy having intercourse with multiple celebrities, all of them high profile.
- He's implying that nothing happened, when in fact, all he's saying is we didn't engage in sexual intercourse.
- It's a husband and wife in the confines of marriage having intercourse, it's hugging, it's cuddling, it's holding hands.
- Importantly, trying to get pregnant means that you're having intercourse, you're ejaculating inside and you're having regular periods.
Examples
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Women with endometriosis often complain of deep pain during intercourse because penetrative sex causes pressure against this area.
Academic text (2012) -
I only have intercourse with my husband, Phil.
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Are you guys having sexual intercourse?
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Henry, I asked you if you and Mary had sexual intercourse.
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For me, when I started engaging in intercourse, I started out using protection.
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We ought to in fact have sexual intercourse, otherwise the species dies out, right?
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Women received their first information about sexual intercourse from parents at the earliest age.
Academic text (2008) -
The moment that we did have intercourse, I regretted it.
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Was intercourse pleasurable for you?
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They decided to wait until marriage for intercourse to honor their beliefs.
Synonyms
Sex between two people
Sex between people
Sex between people, for example in a romantic or casual relationship
An act in which one person's penis enters another person's vagina
Physical acts between people, like touching or having sex, that give pleasure
Sexual activity between people, often intercourse
Sex in which a male inserts his penis into a female's vagina
An act in which a man puts his penis into a woman's vagina
Sex between people, usually meaning one person entering another, used in legal texts
To have sex with someone
Sex when a man's penis goes into a woman's vagina
Private actions between people that involve touching for pleasure
Compounds
How Intimate
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Intercourse comes from the parts inter- 'between' and course 'a running' or 'path'. The idea of 'running between' two people — or two people coming together along a path — is how the word came to mean sexual relations.