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say it: LUHV-may-king
lovemaking is a noun meaning "sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people". It is pronounced /ˈlʌvmeɪkɪŋ/ — LUHV-may-king. It carries one recorded sense.
sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people
“his lovemaking disgusted her”
“he hadn't had any love in months”
“he has a very complicated love life”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lovemaking come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.