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| Main Entry: |
courtship
 [kawrt-ship, kohrt-] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dating, romance |
| Synonyms: | courting, engagement, keeping company, love, lovemaking, pursuit, suit, wooing |
| Main Entry: | lovemaking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sexual activity |
| Synonyms: | carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, copulation, coquetting, courting, courtship, cuddling, dalliance, fondling, fooling around, foreplay, hugging, intercourse, intimacy, kissing, mating, screwing, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, smooching, snuggling, sucking face |
| Main Entry: | romance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | love affair |
| Synonyms: | affair, affair of the heart, amour, attachment, courtship, enchantment, fascination, fling, flirtation, intrigue, liaison, love, love story, passion, relationship |
Example Sentences
- Watch lekking courtship displays that show many of the different bird rituals.
- Cranes engage in courtship rituals so elegant that scientists call them dances.
- To our knowledge, no one has ever recorded courtship behavior in honey badgers.
| Main Entry: | suit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appeal, request |
| Synonyms: | address, application, asking, attention, court, courtship, entreaty, imploration, imprecation, invocation, petition, plea, prayer, requesting, solicitation, soliciting, supplication, wooing |
| Antonyms: | demand, order |
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