live together
— phrasal verb with live uk/lɪv/us/lɪv/verb
B2 If two people live together, they share a house and have a sexual relationship but are not married:
Nowadays many young people live together before they get married.
More examples
- My mother doesn't approve of people living together.
- We started living together after university.
- Are Bob and Grace living together?
- Most people in this country live together before they get married.
- I didn't know Chris and Clare were living together.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Marriage, cohabitation & other relationships
- adulteress
- affinal
- as husband and wife idiom
- be an item idiom
- be shacked up idiom
- hear wedding bells idiom
- hitched
- honest
- husband
- intermarriage
- marriage equality
- marriage guidance
- marriageable
- marry
- marry in haste, repent at leisure idiom
- matrimonial
- shack up
- something
- together
- wedlock
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