live with sb
— phrasal verb with live uk/lɪv/us/lɪv/verb
B2 to share a home with someone and have a sexual relationship with them although you are not married
Examples
- I've been living with Geoff for four years.
- He loves Shelly, but he doesn't want to live with her.
- I lived with David for two years before we got married.
- Is Charlotte living with Peter?
- Greg lived with Harry until his death.
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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