Intercourse
['ɪntəkɔːs] or ['ɪntɚkɔrs]
Definition
(n.) 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.
Checker: Wyatt
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Communication, commerce, converse, communion, connection, mutual exchange.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Correspondence, dealing, intercommunication, intimacy, connection, commerce
ANT:Reticence, suspension, cessation, disconnection, interception, interpellation
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Definition
n. connection by dealings: communication: commerce: communion: coition.
Checker: Muriel
Examples
- It is therefore from the influence of characters and qualities, upon those who have an intercourse with any person, that we blame or praise him. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- And there must be no letter-scribbling to your cousin Hortense--no intercourse whatever. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In this dear intercourse, love, in the guise of enthusiastic friendship, infused more and more of his omnipotent spirit. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Her very limited intercourse with Mr Rokesmith rendered this hard to find out. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But with the encreased mortality this intercourse declined and ceased. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Politics, business, recreation, art, science, the learned professions, polite intercourse, leisure, represent such interests. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- During the three short years our intercourse lasted, our passion continued undiminished--increase it could not. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- These travels of Marco Polo were only the beginning of a very considerable intercourse. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Economic activities deeply influence social intercourse and political organization on one side, and reflect physical conditions on the other. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But observation shows that children are gifted with an equipment of the first order for social intercourse. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Long, long would it be ere Miss Crawford's name passed his lips again, or she could hope for a renewal of such confidential intercourse as had been. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- There was no comfort in having him in London; he might as well be at Enscombe; but Richmond was the very distance for easy intercourse. Jane Austen. Emma.
- This confusion corresponds to the existing situation of human intercourse. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I would therefore take the liberty of suggesting that in our friendly intercourse--which I trust will never be disturbed! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Hence a special mode of social intercourse is instituted, the school, to care for such matters. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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