make love
verbEtymology
Calque of Old Occitan far amor, Middle French faire l'amour.
- calqued from faire l'amour
- calqued from far amor
Definitions
To engage in sexual intercourse.
- I caught them making love on my couch.
- She takes just like a woman, yeah she does / She makes love just like a woman, yeah she does
- I feel like makin' love to you / That's the time / I feel like makin' dreams come true
To make amorous approaches (to)
To make amorous approaches (to); to woo, romance, court.
- So from thenceforth, when loue he to her made, / VVith better tearmes ſhe did him entertaine, / VVhich gaue him hope, and did him halfe perſvvade, / That he iunb time her ioyaunce ſhould obtaine.
- About a week afterwards she said to him, point-blank, "Are you seriously making love to your little cousin?"
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA