Home › Words › L › loveshiploveshiploveship means the act of falling in or making love; courtship.EtymologyFrom love + -ship.nounThe act of falling in or making love; courtship.e.g.“Dapper bearded dyke desires intense friendship, loveship with mentally and physically strong adventurous political lesbian lunatic” — 1989 February 5, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 29, page 13:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).