make love

Questions about make love

What does make love mean?

make love means "have sexual intercourse with".

What is another word for make love?

Close synonyms include sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, sleep with. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is make love a common word?

make love is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.