cohabit

[ koh-hab-it ]

verb (used without object)

1. to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
2. to live together in an intimate relationship.
3. to dwell with another or share the same place, as different species of animals.

cohabit

/ kəʊˈhæbɪt /

verb

1. intr to live together as husband and wife, esp without being married

Derived Forms

• ˌcohabiˈtee, noun

Other Words From

• co·habit·ant co·habit·er noun
• co·habi·tation noun
• nonco·habi·tation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of cohabit¹

1520–30; < Late Latin cohabitāre, equivalent to co- co- + habitāre to have possession, abide (frequentative of habēre to have, own)

Word History and Origins

Origin of cohabit¹

C16: via Late Latin, from Latin co- together + habitāre to live

Example Sentences

However, the utopian world of Friends somehow portrays cohabiting with your buddies as a more complicated experience than this “reality” program.

From The Daily Beast

As one happily cohabiting woman told me, she thought her first husband would be a great father, and he was.

From Time

Centuries ago, Kumandra was a happy land freely cohabited by the five human tribes and dragons, until the land was invaded by a strange monster species called the Druun, who turn everything they touch to stone.

From Vox

Once we’re cohabiting in one place, I think that would be the next move that logically would happen.

From Washington Post

In some tribes, to cohabit with their mothers, sisters, and daughters was esteemed the means of domestic peace.

From Project Gutenberg

The regulations are always a conventionalization which sets the terms, modes, and conditions under which a pair may cohabit.

From Project Gutenberg

Agreement to cohabit, followed by cohabitation, constituted marriage by the canon law.

From Project Gutenberg

It is despicable unjustly to be jealous of your wife; but it is infamy to cohabit with her if you know her to be guilty.

From Project Gutenberg

At a certain time of the year these women unite with their neighbours, and cohabit with them.

From Project Gutenberg