• (America) IPA: /ˈɪn.tɚˌkɔɹs/, /ˈɪn.tɚˌkoɹs/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈɪn.təˌkɔːs/

intercourse

1. Communication, conversation.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 8”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     this sweet intercourse of looks and smiles

2. Dealings between countries.
3. Dealings with people, including commerce and trade.
4. Sexual intercourse usually involving humans.

• See also Thesaurus:copulation.

• German: Beziehungen, Umgang, Verkehr
• Portuguese: comunicação
• Russian: обще́ние
• Spanish: conversación

• German: Beziehungen
• Portuguese: comunicação
• Russian: связь

• German: Beziehungen
• Russian: отношение

• French: relation sexuelle
• German: Geschlechtsverkehr, Verkehr
• Italian: rapporto sessuale
• Portuguese: sexo
• Russian: сноше́ние
• Spanish: coito, acto sexual, relación sexual

intercourse (intercourses, present participle intercoursing; past and past participle intercoursed)

1. (nonstandard, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.

• fornicate, have sex, make love; see also Thesaurus:copulate

1. A particular town in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States