making love
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4.4
- noun
- /ˈmeɪkɪŋ lʌv/
- NSFW
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hacer el amor
- I'm going to make love to you for the rest of my life.
I just I, I, I just enjoyed making love.
- I just I, I, I just enjoyed making love.
- Man, there's something very avant-garde about making love near a deep fryer.
- I've had the experience countless times, making love, watching a sunset, listening to music, feeling the breeze.
- Obviously my own little bubble, do my own little thing, you know, making money, making love, spreading love.
- Writing literature insulting and making love.
- I like more some of like a, a little bit more of a like making love.
Examples
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Even making love, he seems to exist in a world all of his own.
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Now he wants me to say things when we're making love.
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Well, having sex is one thing but making love is something else, right?
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- I would make love to you in every room in the house.
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His energy was beginning to build, as it always did after making love with her.
Fiction book (1990) -
We lazed around in bed, making love and talking about the night before, our lives in general.
Academic text (2009) -
Let's go upstairs and make love like we've never made love before.
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But when you are in your lover's arms making love, don't forget to give me your blessing.
Fiction book (1992) -
I've had the experience countless times, making love, watching a sunset, listening to music, feeling the breeze.
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They spent the night making love, wrapped in each other's arms and expressing their deep affection.
Synonyms
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5.1
Sexual activity between two people, often including intercourse
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6.0
Sex between two adults who care for each other
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3.2
An act in which one person's penis enters another person's vagina
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3.0
Physical acts between people, like touching or having sex, that give pleasure
Having sex with another person
How Intimate
- NSFW
98
4.4
371
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines 'making' (the act of causing/doing) with 'love', so learners can guess it refers to an act related to love; this gives a clear clue. However, the specific conventionalized meaning 'to have sexual intercourse' is a metaphorical extension and may not be fully predictable without prior exposure (though cross‑linguistic equivalents like Spanish 'hacer el amor' increase guessability).
Etymology
Making love began when people used 'to make love' to mean trying to win someone's heart with words and kind actions, a picture of making love as something you create. Over time this idea became physical, so today making love often means 'having sex' as a way of 'showing love'.