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love-making

love-making is the alternative spelling of lovemaking.

Meaning of lovemaking

Noun

lovemaking (countable and uncountable, plural lovemakings)

  1. (euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
    • I can give you more than simple love-making / I can give you ecstasy1981, “Get on Up and Do It Again”, performed by Suzy Q
  2. (dated) Courtship; amorous advances.

Questions about love-making

What is love-making the alternative spelling of?
Love-making is the alternative spelling of lovemaking.

Words near love-making in the dictionary

  1. love-lights
  2. love-lock
  3. love-locks
  4. love-maker
  5. love-makers
  6. love-making
  7. love-match
  8. love-matches
  9. love-shy
  10. love-shyness
  11. love-shys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: love-making (page history and authors); lovemaking (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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