MAKING LOVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does making love mean? 

• MAKING LOVE (noun)
  The noun MAKING LOVE has 1 sense:

1. sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people

  Familiarity information: MAKING LOVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAKING LOVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

love; love life; lovemaking; making love; sexual love

Context example:

he has a very complicated love life

Hypernyms ("making love" is a kind of...):

sex; sex activity; sexual activity; sexual practice (activities associated with sexual intercourse)

 Context examples 

What gentleman among you am I to have the pleasure of making love to?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A new sort of way this, for a young fellow to be making love, by breaking his mistress's head, is not it, Miss Elliot?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

If it were not allowable for him to gain my affections because I had no money, what occasion could there be for making love to a girl whom he did not care about, and who was equally poor?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It was a strange condition of things, the honeymoon being over, and the bridesmaids gone home, when I found myself sitting down in my own small house with Dora; quite thrown out of employment, as I may say, in respect of the delicious old occupation of making love.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With the connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the girl’s short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off other lovers by making love himself.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)