Definition of cohabit in English:

cohabit

verbcohabited, cohabiting, cohabits kəʊˈhabɪtˌkoʊˈhæbət

[no object]

1Live together and have a sexual relationship without being married.
an increasing number of couples are cohabiting
Mary is now cohabiting with Paul
Example sentencesExamples
- In any event, Miss Y was offended by the suggestion that she was cohabiting with Mr X, and the newspaper had to pay up.
- It would predict that men cohabiting with women will have higher rates of promiscuity than men who marry their female partners.
- But a family secret was being kept from her: Sylvia, cohabiting with an Italian socialist and anarchist, had given birth to a son the previous December.
- The events they examined included living with parents, cohabiting with a partner, being the primary caregiver for a child, attending school, and having a job.
- Amanda began cohabiting with Barnaby when she moved into his house six years ago.
- The criteria for inclusion in the study were that each woman be over the age of 18, expecting her first child, and cohabiting with a male partner.
- He has been cohabiting with this woman for ten years, and has two children.
- He has been married once - for ten months - and has had two live-in relationships, but he cohabited with her longer than with the three women put together.
- There is no equivalent presumption in the case of unmarried men, even where they are cohabiting with the mother.
- I have been cohabiting with my partner for over five years.
- The person was cohabiting with the mother of the child in a relationship of some permanence at the time of the birth of the child.
- The number of unmarried adults cohabiting with the opposite sex has soared from 439,000 in 1960 to 4,736,000 in 2000.
- He was dismissed after the evangelical vicar discovered that he had long been cohabiting with his long-standing partner.
- Lately the idea of being married or cohabiting with someone has been rather appealing, strictly from an convenience/economics point of view.
- She was born when her mother was cohabiting with a man who was not her father.
- He soon discovered his wife was cohabiting with Tang and finally tracked them down.
- She has no intention of marrying him or cohabiting with him.
- Happily cohabiting with her partner of 28 years, she has a talented daughter, and no skeletons have emerged from the closet of her beautiful Toronto home.
- The most auspicious moment to work with unwed fathers, says Horn, is around the time of the birth of their children, when almost half are cohabiting with the mothers.
- First, a man is ‘conclusively presumed’ to be the father of a child if he is both married to and cohabiting with the mother, as long as he is not sterile or impotent.
Synonyms
live together, live with, live (together) as husband/man and wife, sleep with, sleep together
informal shack up with
informal, dated live in sin, live over the brush
2Coexist.
animals that can cohabit with humans thrive
Example sentencesExamples
- Darker body color is typically seen in the losers of fights at their conclusion and will also characterize that animal if it remains to cohabit with the winner as a social subordinate.
- I have no desire to cohabit with a hound, however high-bred.
- Yet unless people find a way to steam-clean each crevice of the city every day, rats will continue to cohabit with us in uneasy harmony.
- I like to think of poetry as something which is able to cohabit with other discourses, if it can establish the right to stand beside them.
- When the English eventually took control from the Dutch in 1664, all continued to cohabit quite nicely together.
- How will the general cohabit with a parliament largely hostile to him?
- This appeared to indicate that sea and coarse fish were cohabiting quite happily together.
- Due to flaws in the structural design of our Constitution, however, a popularly elected president is forced to cohabit with a legislature in which the opposition is the majority party.
- Physically we may inhabit the present, but in our minds the past and the future are comfortably cohabiting with it.
- Two basic types of termites may be cohabiting with you: drywood and subterranean.
- Her poems could be cajoling and vituperative, making love and war simultaneously, her sensual lyrics cohabiting with performance pieces.
- But he reminds us of the astringent truth that the preposterous has no trouble cohabiting with the malevolent.
- The issue of liberal bias cohabiting with immense media power was on the table.
- By understanding their needs, you can peacefully cohabit with black bears to their benefit and yours.
- Next you should consider the size of your house: do you have ample space for the new dog to cohabit with the owners and any existing pets?
- This film seems intended to suggest that he preferred to cohabit with animals rather than American citizens during the Vietnam War.

Derivatives

cohabitant

noun kəʊˈhabɪt(ə)ntˌkoʊˈhæbədənt

1A member of a couple who live together and have a sexual relationship without being married.
support for additional rights for cohabitants following separation
Example sentencesExamples
- Given that in some countries the rights of cohabitants are recognised in law, the most sensible thing for politicians to do would be to turn this fiction into reality.
- My cohabitants at the motel had warned me against accepting free drinks (‘they spike them’).
- Now we've got a culture that has got a larger number of cohabitants than the 1960s, and that's because we have a generation of kids who've lived with divorce.
- humans rely on their microbial cohabitants
2Something that coexists with another.

cohabitee

noun kəʊhabɪˈtiːˌkoʊhæbəˈti

As cohabitees, they have no entitlements to each other's assets.
Example sentencesExamples
- There is still in England no legal recognition for a common-law relationship with partners or cohabitees, though in some areas such as pensions there have been concessions.
- When I looked at the issues raised in the agreement I'm rather appalled that my husband and I didn't even discuss them when we first moved in together as cohabitees.
- Most unmarried couples eventually decide to get married or split up, suggesting that only a minority of couples wish to stay as cohabitees for their entire lives together.
- There is currently no recognised legal state for cohabitees.

cohabiter

noun

Because of the lack of any relevant legislation dealing with the rights of cohabiters, she would be in serious difficulties if he were to die suddenly.
Example sentencesExamples
- About 69% of the couples were living together prior to marriage, with the cohabiters living together an average of 21 months.
- In Sweden, for instance, 70 percent of cohabiters wed after their first child is born.
- Legal sources expect a challenge to this treatment under European law on the grounds of discriminating unfairly against cohabiters.
- Despite the meticulous period setting, the production is not about 1956 but about Jimmy Porter and his similarly intriguing cohabiters.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin cohabitare, from co- 'together' + habitare 'dwell'.

Rhymes

Babbitt, habit, rabbet, rabbit

Definition of cohabit in US English:

cohabit

verbˌkoʊˈhæbətˌkōˈhabət

[no object]

1Live together and have a sexual relationship without being married.
Example sentencesExamples
- It would predict that men cohabiting with women will have higher rates of promiscuity than men who marry their female partners.
- But a family secret was being kept from her: Sylvia, cohabiting with an Italian socialist and anarchist, had given birth to a son the previous December.
- I have been cohabiting with my partner for over five years.
- Happily cohabiting with her partner of 28 years, she has a talented daughter, and no skeletons have emerged from the closet of her beautiful Toronto home.
- The person was cohabiting with the mother of the child in a relationship of some permanence at the time of the birth of the child.
- He soon discovered his wife was cohabiting with Tang and finally tracked them down.
- In any event, Miss Y was offended by the suggestion that she was cohabiting with Mr X, and the newspaper had to pay up.
- The most auspicious moment to work with unwed fathers, says Horn, is around the time of the birth of their children, when almost half are cohabiting with the mothers.
- Amanda began cohabiting with Barnaby when she moved into his house six years ago.
- The number of unmarried adults cohabiting with the opposite sex has soared from 439,000 in 1960 to 4,736,000 in 2000.
- He has been cohabiting with this woman for ten years, and has two children.
- The criteria for inclusion in the study were that each woman be over the age of 18, expecting her first child, and cohabiting with a male partner.
- There is no equivalent presumption in the case of unmarried men, even where they are cohabiting with the mother.
- The events they examined included living with parents, cohabiting with a partner, being the primary caregiver for a child, attending school, and having a job.
- Lately the idea of being married or cohabiting with someone has been rather appealing, strictly from an convenience/economics point of view.
- She has no intention of marrying him or cohabiting with him.
- First, a man is ‘conclusively presumed’ to be the father of a child if he is both married to and cohabiting with the mother, as long as he is not sterile or impotent.
- She was born when her mother was cohabiting with a man who was not her father.
- He was dismissed after the evangelical vicar discovered that he had long been cohabiting with his long-standing partner.
- He has been married once - for ten months - and has had two live-in relationships, but he cohabited with her longer than with the three women put together.
Synonyms
live together, live with, live as husband and wife, live as man and wife, live together as husband and wife, live together as man and wife, sleep with, sleep together
1. 1.1 Coexist.
  animals that can cohabit with humans thrive
  Example sentencesExamples
  This appeared to indicate that sea and coarse fish were cohabiting quite happily together.
  I have no desire to cohabit with a hound, however high-bred.
  Next you should consider the size of your house: do you have ample space for the new dog to cohabit with the owners and any existing pets?
  I like to think of poetry as something which is able to cohabit with other discourses, if it can establish the right to stand beside them.
  The issue of liberal bias cohabiting with immense media power was on the table.
  How will the general cohabit with a parliament largely hostile to him?
  When the English eventually took control from the Dutch in 1664, all continued to cohabit quite nicely together.
  This film seems intended to suggest that he preferred to cohabit with animals rather than American citizens during the Vietnam War.
  Darker body color is typically seen in the losers of fights at their conclusion and will also characterize that animal if it remains to cohabit with the winner as a social subordinate.
  Physically we may inhabit the present, but in our minds the past and the future are comfortably cohabiting with it.
  Yet unless people find a way to steam-clean each crevice of the city every day, rats will continue to cohabit with us in uneasy harmony.
  By understanding their needs, you can peacefully cohabit with black bears to their benefit and yours.
  But he reminds us of the astringent truth that the preposterous has no trouble cohabiting with the malevolent.
  Her poems could be cajoling and vituperative, making love and war simultaneously, her sensual lyrics cohabiting with performance pieces.
  Two basic types of termites may be cohabiting with you: drywood and subterranean.
  Due to flaws in the structural design of our Constitution, however, a popularly elected president is forced to cohabit with a legislature in which the opposition is the majority party.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin cohabitare, from co- ‘together’ + habitare ‘dwell’.

单词	cohabit
释义	Definition of cohabit in English: cohabit verbcohabited, cohabiting, cohabits kəʊˈhabɪtˌkoʊˈhæbət [no object] 1Live together and have a sexual relationship without being married. an increasing number of couples are cohabiting Mary is now cohabiting with Paul Example sentencesExamples In any event, Miss Y was offended by the suggestion that she was cohabiting with Mr X, and the newspaper had to pay up. It would predict that men cohabiting with women will have higher rates of promiscuity than men who marry their female partners. But a family secret was being kept from her: Sylvia, cohabiting with an Italian socialist and anarchist, had given birth to a son the previous December. The events they examined included living with parents, cohabiting with a partner, being the primary caregiver for a child, attending school, and having a job. Amanda began cohabiting with Barnaby when she moved into his house six years ago. The criteria for inclusion in the study were that each woman be over the age of 18, expecting her first child, and cohabiting with a male partner. He has been cohabiting with this woman for ten years, and has two children. He has been married once - for ten months - and has had two live-in relationships, but he cohabited with her longer than with the three women put together. There is no equivalent presumption in the case of unmarried men, even where they are cohabiting with the mother. I have been cohabiting with my partner for over five years. The person was cohabiting with the mother of the child in a relationship of some permanence at the time of the birth of the child. The number of unmarried adults cohabiting with the opposite sex has soared from 439,000 in 1960 to 4,736,000 in 2000. He was dismissed after the evangelical vicar discovered that he had long been cohabiting with his long-standing partner. Lately the idea of being married or cohabiting with someone has been rather appealing, strictly from an convenience/economics point of view. She was born when her mother was cohabiting with a man who was not her father. He soon discovered his wife was cohabiting with Tang and finally tracked them down. She has no intention of marrying him or cohabiting with him. Happily cohabiting with her partner of 28 years, she has a talented daughter, and no skeletons have emerged from the closet of her beautiful Toronto home. The most auspicious moment to work with unwed fathers, says Horn, is around the time of the birth of their children, when almost half are cohabiting with the mothers. First, a man is ‘conclusively presumed’ to be the father of a child if he is both married to and cohabiting with the mother, as long as he is not sterile or impotent. Synonyms live together, live with, live (together) as husband/man and wife, sleep with, sleep together informal shack up with informal, dated live in sin, live over the brush 2Coexist. animals that can cohabit with humans thrive Example sentencesExamples Darker body color is typically seen in the losers of fights at their conclusion and will also characterize that animal if it remains to cohabit with the winner as a social subordinate. I have no desire to cohabit with a hound, however high-bred. Yet unless people find a way to steam-clean each crevice of the city every day, rats will continue to cohabit with us in uneasy harmony. I like to think of poetry as something which is able to cohabit with other discourses, if it can establish the right to stand beside them. When the English eventually took control from the Dutch in 1664, all continued to cohabit quite nicely together. How will the general cohabit with a parliament largely hostile to him? This appeared to indicate that sea and coarse fish were cohabiting quite happily together. Due to flaws in the structural design of our Constitution, however, a popularly elected president is forced to cohabit with a legislature in which the opposition is the majority party. Physically we may inhabit the present, but in our minds the past and the future are comfortably cohabiting with it. Two basic types of termites may be cohabiting with you: drywood and subterranean. Her poems could be cajoling and vituperative, making love and war simultaneously, her sensual lyrics cohabiting with performance pieces. But he reminds us of the astringent truth that the preposterous has no trouble cohabiting with the malevolent. The issue of liberal bias cohabiting with immense media power was on the table. By understanding their needs, you can peacefully cohabit with black bears to their benefit and yours. Next you should consider the size of your house: do you have ample space for the new dog to cohabit with the owners and any existing pets? This film seems intended to suggest that he preferred to cohabit with animals rather than American citizens during the Vietnam War. Derivatives cohabitant noun kəʊˈhabɪt(ə)ntˌkoʊˈhæbədənt 1A member of a couple who live together and have a sexual relationship without being married. support for additional rights for cohabitants following separation Example sentencesExamples Given that in some countries the rights of cohabitants are recognised in law, the most sensible thing for politicians to do would be to turn this fiction into reality. My cohabitants at the motel had warned me against accepting free drinks (‘they spike them’). Now we've got a culture that has got a larger number of cohabitants than the 1960s, and that's because we have a generation of kids who've lived with divorce. humans rely on their microbial cohabitants 2Something that coexists with another. cohabitee noun kəʊhabɪˈtiːˌkoʊhæbəˈti As cohabitees, they have no entitlements to each other's assets. Example sentencesExamples There is still in England no legal recognition for a common-law relationship with partners or cohabitees, though in some areas such as pensions there have been concessions. When I looked at the issues raised in the agreement I'm rather appalled that my husband and I didn't even discuss them when we first moved in together as cohabitees. Most unmarried couples eventually decide to get married or split up, suggesting that only a minority of couples wish to stay as cohabitees for their entire lives together. There is currently no recognised legal state for cohabitees. cohabiter noun Because of the lack of any relevant legislation dealing with the rights of cohabiters, she would be in serious difficulties if he were to die suddenly. Example sentencesExamples About 69% of the couples were living together prior to marriage, with the cohabiters living together an average of 21 months. In Sweden, for instance, 70 percent of cohabiters wed after their first child is born. Legal sources expect a challenge to this treatment under European law on the grounds of discriminating unfairly against cohabiters. Despite the meticulous period setting, the production is not about 1956 but about Jimmy Porter and his similarly intriguing cohabiters. Origin Mid 16th century: from Latin cohabitare, from co- 'together' + habitare 'dwell'. Rhymes Babbitt, habit, rabbet, rabbit Definition of cohabit in US English: cohabit verbˌkoʊˈhæbətˌkōˈhabət [no object] 1Live together and have a sexual relationship without being married. Example sentencesExamples It would predict that men cohabiting with women will have higher rates of promiscuity than men who marry their female partners. But a family secret was being kept from her: Sylvia, cohabiting with an Italian socialist and anarchist, had given birth to a son the previous December. I have been cohabiting with my partner for over five years. Happily cohabiting with her partner of 28 years, she has a talented daughter, and no skeletons have emerged from the closet of her beautiful Toronto home. The person was cohabiting with the mother of the child in a relationship of some permanence at the time of the birth of the child. He soon discovered his wife was cohabiting with Tang and finally tracked them down. In any event, Miss Y was offended by the suggestion that she was cohabiting with Mr X, and the newspaper had to pay up. The most auspicious moment to work with unwed fathers, says Horn, is around the time of the birth of their children, when almost half are cohabiting with the mothers. Amanda began cohabiting with Barnaby when she moved into his house six years ago. The number of unmarried adults cohabiting with the opposite sex has soared from 439,000 in 1960 to 4,736,000 in 2000. He has been cohabiting with this woman for ten years, and has two children. The criteria for inclusion in the study were that each woman be over the age of 18, expecting her first child, and cohabiting with a male partner. There is no equivalent presumption in the case of unmarried men, even where they are cohabiting with the mother. The events they examined included living with parents, cohabiting with a partner, being the primary caregiver for a child, attending school, and having a job. Lately the idea of being married or cohabiting with someone has been rather appealing, strictly from an convenience/economics point of view. She has no intention of marrying him or cohabiting with him. First, a man is ‘conclusively presumed’ to be the father of a child if he is both married to and cohabiting with the mother, as long as he is not sterile or impotent. She was born when her mother was cohabiting with a man who was not her father. He was dismissed after the evangelical vicar discovered that he had long been cohabiting with his long-standing partner. He has been married once - for ten months - and has had two live-in relationships, but he cohabited with her longer than with the three women put together. Synonyms live together, live with, live as husband and wife, live as man and wife, live together as husband and wife, live together as man and wife, sleep with, sleep together 1.1 Coexist. animals that can cohabit with humans thrive Example sentencesExamples This appeared to indicate that sea and coarse fish were cohabiting quite happily together. I have no desire to cohabit with a hound, however high-bred. Next you should consider the size of your house: do you have ample space for the new dog to cohabit with the owners and any existing pets? I like to think of poetry as something which is able to cohabit with other discourses, if it can establish the right to stand beside them. The issue of liberal bias cohabiting with immense media power was on the table. How will the general cohabit with a parliament largely hostile to him? When the English eventually took control from the Dutch in 1664, all continued to cohabit quite nicely together. This film seems intended to suggest that he preferred to cohabit with animals rather than American citizens during the Vietnam War. Darker body color is typically seen in the losers of fights at their conclusion and will also characterize that animal if it remains to cohabit with the winner as a social subordinate. Physically we may inhabit the present, but in our minds the past and the future are comfortably cohabiting with it. Yet unless people find a way to steam-clean each crevice of the city every day, rats will continue to cohabit with us in uneasy harmony. By understanding their needs, you can peacefully cohabit with black bears to their benefit and yours. But he reminds us of the astringent truth that the preposterous has no trouble cohabiting with the malevolent. Her poems could be cajoling and vituperative, making love and war simultaneously, her sensual lyrics cohabiting with performance pieces. Two basic types of termites may be cohabiting with you: drywood and subterranean. Due to flaws in the structural design of our Constitution, however, a popularly elected president is forced to cohabit with a legislature in which the opposition is the majority party. Origin Mid 16th century: from Latin cohabitare, from co- ‘together’ + habitare ‘dwell’.
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