Definition of Making love

1. Noun. Sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people. "He has a very complicated love life"

Exact synonyms: Love, Love Life, Lovemaking, Sexual Love
Generic synonyms: Sex, Sex Activity, Sexual Activity, Sexual Practice
Derivative terms: Love

Definition of Making love

1. Verb. (present participle of make love) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Making Love

makimono
makimonos
makin'
making
making-iron
making a hash of
making a living
making an effort
making believe
making do
making ends meet
making fun of
making history
making it
making known
making love (current term)
making merry
making off
making out
making over
making time
making tracks
making up
making use
making water
making waves
making whoopee
makings
makiotoshi
makis

Literary usage of Making love

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The British Essayists edited by Alexander Chalmers (1808)
"Ovid has finely touched this method of making love, which I shall here give my reader in Mr. ... making Love ..."

2. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"... a whole evening been making love before my very face to another man!" . . . But, Oh dear, here have they been with a riding habit and the "usual ..."

3. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"... flirting with a certain Mr. that "I wondered she should expect me to behave decently to her after she had for a whole evening been making love before my ..."

4. The Wits and Beaux of Society by A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton (1871)
"making love Metaphysically.—The Old Scottish Supper.—The Men of Mark passing away'—The Band of Young Spirits.— Brougham's Early Tenacity. ..."

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