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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cohabit
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Most divorcees either remarry or cohabit with another partner.
▪ Only about one in three couples who cohabit end up getting married.
EXAMPLES FROM 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?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cohabit

Cohabit \Co*hab"it\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cohabited; p. pr. & vb. n. Cohabiting.] [L. cohabitare; co- + habitare to dwell, to have possession of (a place), freg. of habere to have. See Habit, n. & v.]

  1. To inhabit or reside in company, or in the same place or country.

    The Philistines were worsted by the captived ark . . . : they were not able to cohabit with that holy thing.
    --South.

  2. To dwell or live together as husband and wife.

    The law presumes that husband and wife cohabit together, even after a voluntary separation has taken place between them.
    --Bouvier.

    Note: By the common law as existing in the United States, marriage is presumed when a man and woman cohabit permanently together, being reputed by those who know them to be husband and wife, and admitting the relationship.
    --Wharton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cohabit

euphemism since 1530s to describe a couple living together without benefit of marriage; back-formation from cohabitation. Related: Cohabited; cohabiting.

Wiktionary
cohabit

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To reside with another as if married or as a married couple. 2 (context intransitive English) To coexist in common environs with. 3 (context intransitive archaic English) To engage in sexual intercourse; see coition.

WordNet
cohabit

v. room or live together; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple [syn: shack up]

Usage examples of "cohabit".

Her solicitor had also explained to her that the law allowed her husband to imprison her, if he wished, to force her to cohabit with him.

Only in 1884 did an act of Parliament end the powers of the Matrimonial Causes Court to use the threat of imprisonment to force a wife to cohabit with her husband.

Instead, she must cohabit, giving them resolve to carry out their desires.

And why visit a poltergeist teacher when you can cohabit with the living?

The operation is quite simple and as follows: The husband, having been found perfectly healthy, is directed to cohabit with his wife, using a condom.

And the evidence suggests that on average, children who live with both their biological mother and father do better than those who live in stepfamilies or with cohabiting partners.

Association Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions Article IV, General Provisions, Section 9, Paragraph F: No unmarried resident of Bonita Vista may cohabit ate with a member of the same or opposite sex in any residence within the Properties.

There were demi-maison patients viewing a cartridge of martial arts conflict, former patients and persons of the upper Enfield area cohabiting on the furniture, conversing.

But in introducing me simultaneously to scepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method.

We cohabit the surface of Sekot, the boras and us, and we respect each other's differences.

Though Doona was cohabited by Humans and Hrrubans, each race had committed to a Treaty spedfying separate territorial rights to all other claimed systems.

It's the old flatheads in Spacedep who want us to go back to square one and pretend that a cohabited colony never happened.

A majority of people who marry this year will have cohabited with someone already, even though statistics show that cohabitation greatly increases the likelihood of divorce.

Barna cites these statistics: "A majority of people who marry this year will have cohabited with someone before getting married.

Accordingly, a large Psychology Today survey (Salovey & Rodin, 1985) showed that separated and divorced persons suffered the most jealousy, followed by cohabiting single people, and married people the least.