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intercourse Definition

inter·course (in′tər kôrs′)

noun

  1. communication or dealings between or among people, countries, etc.; interchange of products, services, ideas, feelings, etc.
    1. sexual intercourse
    2. any other sexual act involving insertion of the penis anal intercourse

Etymology: ME entercours < OFr entrecours < L intercursus: see inter- & course

intercourse Synonyms

intercourse

n.

  1. Communication

    association, dealings, interchange; see communication 1.

  2. Sex act

    coitus, coition, sexual relations; see copulation, fornication, sex 4.

intercourse Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • forbid: A rule which forbids social intercourse between members of different corps is strict.
  • facilitate: The walls of the vagina have elasticity to facilitate intercourse and childbirth.
  • have: Straight away he will want to have intercourse, he will want to kiss!
  • avoid: I avoided intercourse with them in every possible way.
  • hold: The shaman's personal soul quits his body in a trance to hold intercourse with spirits.
  • enjoy: With Lord Jeffrey he had enjoyed some delightful intercourse.

Adjective modifier

  • unprotected: HIV is, of course, not transmitted by unprotected anal intercourse.
  • anal: In addition, Dunn had anal intercourse with the victim, probably without her consent.
  • sexual: Roman Polanski had pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13 year old girl in 1977.
  • heterosexual: The study reported here explored what young women say about their first heterosexual intercourse.
  • penetrative: In most cases, the remaining length of the vagina is very small which may mean that penetrative sexual intercourse is no longer possible.
  • vaginal: They were all couples in established relationships using condoms for vaginal intercourse.

Preposition: with

  • girl: Thailand: Thai penal code outlaws sexual intercourse with a girl under 13, with or without consent.
  • woman: He then begins to have full-on intercourse with the woman.
  • partner: Gonorrhea is an excellent indicator of unprotected sexual intercourse with multiple partners, the principal sexual risk for the transmission of HIV.
  • man: First, when an immature girl has sexual intercourse with a man, her gradual development toward sexual maturity can be affected.
  • world: Here lay all his intercourse with the outer world.
  • people: Being anxious to enter into friendly intercourse with these people, Cook renewed the attempt next morning.

Preposition: between

man: But the largest number of new infections resulted from sexual intercourse between men - almost half of all new cases.

Preposition: in

direction: In place of the old local and national seclusion and self sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal interdependence of nations.