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The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
Heywood Broun

Meaning of "make love" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MAKE LOVE

make love play
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WHAT DOES MAKE LOVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Making Love (disambiguation)

Making Love is a 1982 American drama film. Making Love may also refer to: ▪ "Making Love", the theme song to the above film, performed by Roberta Flack ▪ Making Love... The Very Best of Air Supply, a 1983 album by Air Supply ▪ Making Love, a 1999 album by Atom and His Package ▪ Making Love - A Conspiracy of the Heart, a 2003 comic novel ▪ A euphemism for Sexual intercourse ▪ Flirting ▪ "Making Love", a song by Yngwie Malmsteen from Eclipse ▪ "Making Love", an early recording by Peter Tosh ▪ "Making Love", a 2006 song by Hikaru Utada from Ultra Blue...

Definition of make love in the English dictionary

The definition of make love in the dictionary is to have sexual intercourse. Other definition of make love is to engage in courtship.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MAKE LOVE

make hay while the sun shines
make head
make head or tail of
make heavy weather
make heavy weather of something
make it
make it snappy
make light of
make like
make little of
make love to someone
make merry
make mincemeat of
make much of
make no bones about
make noises about
make of
make off
make off with
make one´s blood boil

WORDS THAT END LIKE MAKE LOVE

calf love
clove
courtly love
cupboard love
declaration of love
fall in love
for love
free love
glove
in love
labour of love
lad´s love
love
mother love
puppy love
romantic love
self-love
tough love
truelove
unlove

Synonyms and antonyms of make love in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MAKE LOVE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «make love» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of make love

Translation of «make love» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MAKE LOVE

Find out the translation of make love to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of make love from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «make love» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

做爱
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hacer el amor
570 millions of speakers

English

make love
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्यार करना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جعل الحب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

заниматься любовью
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fazer amor
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মহব্বত কর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

faire l´amour
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

berkasih sayang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Liebe machen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

セックスする
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

사랑을
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

kenthu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

làm cho tình yêu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அன்பு செய்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रेम करा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sevişmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fare l´amore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kochać
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кохатися
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

a face dragoste
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κάνουν έρωτα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

liefde maak
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

älska
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

make love
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of make love

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MAKE LOVE»

The term «make love» is quite widely used and occupies the 29.085 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MAKE LOVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «make love» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «make love» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about make love

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10 QUOTES WITH «MAKE LOVE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word make love.
1
F. Murray Abraham
The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.
2
Casey Affleck
My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.
3
Sherwood Anderson
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
4
Tallulah Bankhead
I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
5
Amelia Barr
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
6
Andre Breton
Words make love with one another.
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Heywood Broun
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
8
Barbara Cartland
France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
9
Jacques Yves Cousteau
A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.
10
El DeBarge
There's music to dance to and make love to, music to cry to. I'm starting from scratch, coming fresh. But my sound still embodies the same soulful, intricate harmonies.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAKE LOVE»

Discover the use of make love in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to make love and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way
What you're reading right now is known as the “flap copy.” This is where the 72,444 words of my latest book, Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way, are cooked down to fit in a 3 ½-by-9 ½-inch column.
Bruce Campbell, 2007
2
Care to Make Love in That Gross Little Space Between Cars?: ...
A collection of offbeat, belligerent advice columns from The Believer is augmented by contributions by such comics and writers as Bob Saget, Amy Sedaris and Nick Hornby and provides dubiously helpful tips on dilemmas ranging from getting ...
The Believer, 2012
3
How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired: A Novel
With this novel, Laferrière began a series of internationally acclaimed social and political novels about the love of the world, and the world of sex, including Heading South and I Am a Japanese Writer.
Dany LaFerrière, 2010
4
Make Love, Make War
Now Brian shares the stories and inspirations behind some of today's most acclaimed songs of worship, including "Come, Now is the Time to Worship," "Hallelujah (Your Love is Amazing)," and "With All My Affection.
Brian Doerksen, 2010
5
How to Make Love All the Time: Make Love Last a Lifetime
A psychologist advises readers how to avoid mistakes in love, find the right partner, rekindle passion, prevent relationship burnout, argue fairly, and more
Barbara De Angelis, 1991
6
101 Nights of Grrreat Romance: How to Make Love with Your ...
This is the first and only book filled with secret sealed recipes for romance--half for men and half for women. Each week, a couple is asked to tear two of the perforated pages from the book and follow the secret instructions.
Laura Corn, 2005
7
How to Make Love to a Plastic Cup: A Guy's Guide to the ...
The man's guide to anything and everything in the infertility universe Greg Wolfe went through four cycles of IVF on his rocky journey to fatherhood—and now, with profound sympathy and side-splitting humor, he lays it all out for guys on ...
Greg Wolfe, 2010
8
365 Ways to Make Love
A sexy and wholesome aphrodisiac, 365 WAYS TO MAKE LOVE will help you recapture that tingling sense of pleasure you felt when you first fell deeply in love (or lust!).
Lori Salkin, Rob Sperry, 1996
9
Love Numbers: How to Use Numerology to Make Love Count
"Love Numbers" gives readers all the simple formulas needed to determine the numerology for anyone.
Margaret Arnold, 1997
10
How to Make Love to a Woman
"Will make life--sex life, anyway--easier for men and infinitely more pleasurable for women."COSMOPOLITAN "From the Paperback edition."
Michael Morgenstern, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MAKE LOVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term make love is used in the context of the following news items.
1
How to Make Love Work the Second Time Around | Steve Harvey
Young love - remember how good it felt? Maybe it was your high school sweetheart or the boy you fell in love with at college, but things didn't ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
2
If Your Person Doesn't Make You Feel These 5 Things, Don't Say 'I Do'
... firsthand that, although rapidly fading into distant memory, at the time, made me understand feelings themselves aren't what make love. «Elite Daily, Jul 15»
3
Blog: Hackers crack dating site for married people, adulterers frantic
... dating websites for so-called "single" people, AshleyMadison features members who openly admit they are married but looking to make love ... «American Thinker, Jul 15»
4
Nicole Kidman on Keith Urban - Entertainment Tonight
In the Q&A, Nicole says the best way to decompress is to "make love," and sporting a flowy white dress, shows a carefree side of herself rarely ... «Entertainment Tonight, Jul 15»
5
from the archive, 21 July 1997 - The Guardian
The Diet Coke song, Etta James's I Just Want To Make Love To You, was also re-released earlier this year. It soared up the charts, into the top ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
6
Kaitlyn Bristowe Is The Bachelorette's Katniss -- Vulture
She is a rebel, defiant in her right to search, be fickle, make love when she damn pleases, and behave like an actual human being. The show ... «Vulture, Jul 15»
7
When War Becomes a Way of Life (2 Samuel 11:1-15) | Raj Nadella
How could I go to my house to eat and drink and make love to my wife?" Uriah's words effectively expose how David was acting as though ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
8
'Zero': Karlovy Vary Review - The Hollywood Reporter
... Jan Hrebejk's Shameless) and the couple make love, which includes using honey to glue live bees to the naked body parts of the other. «Hollywood Reporter, Jul 15»
9
DJ Nick Cannon Makes the Ladies Swoon at BlogHer Closing Party …
The trio sang four of their biggest hits — “On Bended Knee,” “I'll Make Love to You,” “End of the Road,” and “Motownphilly.” At one point, the ... «Wetpaint, Jul 15»
10
Scarlett Johansson's 7 Defining Roles! | moviepilot.com
The first time he meets them, Juan-Antonio tells Vicky and Cristina he'd like to fly them to an island on his private plane and make love to them. «moviepilot.com, Jul 15»

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