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verb
To live together with someone else, especially in a romantic and sexual relationship but without being married.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To coexist in common environs with.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To have sex; see coition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, intransitive
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verb
To cooperate with an opposing political party.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government, politics
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verb
share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: live together, shack up
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Broader terms: populate, dwell, live, inhabit
Narrower terms: miscegenate
History
From Latin cohabitō; co- + habitō (“to dwell, to live in”).
Across languages
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
