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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Intercourse \In"ter*course\, noun [Formerly entercourse, OF. entrecours commerce, exchange, F. entrecours a reciprocal right on neighboring lands, L. intercursus a running between, fr. intercurrere to run between. See {Inter-}, and {Course}.]
1. A commingling; intimate connection or dealings between persons or nations, as in common affairs and civilities, in correspondence or trade; communication; commerce; especially, interchange of thought and feeling; association; communion.
This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. --Milton.
2. Same as {sexual intercourse}. [PJC]
{Sexual intercourse}, sexual or carnal connection; coition; copulation, especially between humans.
Syn: Communication; connection; commerce; communion; fellowship; familiarity; acquaintance.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
intercourse
noun
1: communication between individuals [syn: {social intercourse}]
2: the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur [syn: {sexual intercourse}, {sex act}, {copulation}, {coitus}, {coition}, {sexual congress}, {congress}, {sexual relation}, {relation}, {carnal knowledge}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
195 Moby Thesaurus words for "intercourse": ESP, accord, act of love, addition, adjunct, adultery, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, alliance, alternation, answer, aphrodisia, approximation, articulation, ass, assemblage, association, balance of trade, balling, big business, bond, bracketing, business, business dealings, carnal knowledge, climax, closeness, clustering, coaction, cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, collegiality, colloquial discourse, colloquy, combination, commerce, commercial affairs, commercial relations, communication, communion, community, complementary distribution, concatenation, concourse, concurrence, confluence, congeries, conglomeration, congress, conjugation, conjunction, connectedness, connection, contact, contiguity, contrariety, convergence, conversation, converse, conversing, cooperation, copula, copulation, correspondence, coupling, dealing, dealings, deduction, diddling, discourse, disjunction, engagement, exchange, fair trade, fellowship, filiation, fornication, free trade, gathering, give-and-take, homology, hookup, industry, information, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercommunion, interlacing, interlinking, interlocution, intermeshing, interplay, intertwining, interweaving, interworking, intimacy, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, knotting, liaison, linguistic intercourse, link, linkage, linking, lovemaking, making it with, marital relations, market, marketing, marriage, marriage act, mating, meat, meeting, mercantile business, merchantry, merger, merging, mesh, meshing, message, multilateral trade, mutual attraction, nearness, onanism, orgasm, ovum, pairing, pareunia, procreation, propinquity, proximity, quid pro quo, rapping, rapport, reciprocal trade, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, reply, response, restraint of trade, screwing, seesaw, sex, sex act, sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union, similarity, sleeping with, small business, social activity, social intercourse, social relations, speaking, speech, speech circuit, speech situation, sperm, splice, symbiosis, sympathy, talking, telepathy, the business world, the marketplace, tie, tie-in, tie-up, tit for tat, touch, trade, traffic, truck, two-way communication, unification, unilateral trade, union, venery, verbal intercourse, yoking
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