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单词 cohabit
释义
cohabitco‧hab‧it /kəʊˈhæbɪt $ koʊ-/ verb [intransitive] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINcohabit
Origin:
1500-1600 Late Latin cohabitare, from Latin co- (CO-) + habitare (HABITATION)
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
cohabit
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theycohabit
he, she, itcohabits
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theycohabited
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave cohabited
he, she, ithas cohabited
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad cohabited
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill cohabit
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have cohabited
Continuous Form
PresentIam cohabiting
he, she, itis cohabiting
you, we, theyare cohabiting
PastI, he, she, itwas cohabiting
you, we, theywere cohabiting
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been cohabiting
he, she, ithas been cohabiting
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been cohabiting
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be cohabiting
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been cohabiting
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Most divorcees either remarry or cohabit with another partner.
  • Only about one in three couples who cohabit end up getting married.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Does she welcome the intruder and discuss how best they can cohabit the territory, sharing prey?
  • Falling in love with her beauty, he cohabited with her; then he left and forgot the whole affair.
  • The same might just as well be true, however, of unmarried cohabiting couples and of couples who do not cohabit.
  • They met in 1968 and began to cohabit in 1969, although they did not marry until 1978.
  • Why, for instance, would two individuals want to form a legal marriage instead of simply cohabiting?
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto live with someone who you have a sexual relationship with
· I lived with Stuart for three years before we broke up.· Have you ever met the woman that Glen is living with?
if two people live together , they live in the same house and have a sexual relationship: · These days people often live together before getting married.· Al really wants us to live together, but I'm not sure I'm ready.
formal to live with someone as if you were married to them: · Only about one in three couples who cohabit end up getting married.cohabit with: · Most divorcees either remarry or cohabit with another partner.
informal to start to live with someone who you have a sexual relationship with - often used humorously: shack up with: · He's shacking up with some girl he met at the beach.be shacked up (=be living together): · Once they were shacked up, all they did was fight.
to live with another person and have a sexual relationship with them without being married SYN  live togethercohabitation /kəʊˌhæbɪˈteɪʃən $ koʊ-/ noun [uncountable]
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