as husband and wife
in the same way as two people who are married:
Although never married, they lived together as husband and wife for 50 years.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Marriage, cohabitation & other relationships
- adulteress
- affinal
- be an item idiom
- be shacked up idiom
- civil partnership
- hitched
- honest
- husband
- intermarriage
- involvement
- marriage equality
- marriage guidance
- marriageable
- marry
- marry in haste, repent at leisure idiom
- matrimonial
- shack up
- something
- together
- wedlock
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