Cohabit
verb
To live together, usually as a couple, without being married.
My sister and her boyfriend have decided to cohabit before getting married.
Often appears as...
- cohabit together
- cohabit before marriage
verb
To live with or close to another organism, often with mutual benefit.
Some species of plants and insects cohabit, each benefiting the other in some way.
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Technical
verb
To live together, usually as a couple, without being married.
My sister and her boyfriend have decided to cohabit before getting married.
Often appears as...
- cohabit together
- cohabit before marriage
verb
To live with or close to another organism, often with mutual benefit.
Some species of plants and insects cohabit, each benefiting the other in some way.
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Relationship Context
Often used when discussing living arrangements between people in intimate relationships without marriage.
After years of dating, they chose to cohabit and test their compatibility.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Acceptance
The idea of cohabiting can be culturally sensitive; accepted in some places and frowned upon in others.
In my home country, it's common for couples to cohabit before marriage.
Pro Tip 3/3Legal Implications
Some regions have laws affecting cohabiting couples, like 'common-law' partnerships.
They didn't marry but have rights as a common-law couple after cohabiting for years.
Pro Tip 1/3Relationship Context
Often used when discussing living arrangements between people in intimate relationships without marriage.
After years of dating, they chose to cohabit and test their compatibility.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Acceptance
The idea of cohabiting can be culturally sensitive; accepted in some places and frowned upon in others.
In my home country, it's common for couples to cohabit before marriage.
Pro Tip 3/3Legal Implications
Some regions have laws affecting cohabiting couples, like 'common-law' partnerships.
They didn't marry but have rights as a common-law couple after cohabiting for years.
Pro Tip 1/3Relationship Context
Often used when discussing living arrangements between people in intimate relationships without marriage.
After years of dating, they chose to cohabit and test their compatibility.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Acceptance
The idea of cohabiting can be culturally sensitive; accepted in some places and frowned upon in others.
In my home country, it's common for couples to cohabit before marriage.
Pro Tip 3/3Legal Implications
Some regions have laws affecting cohabiting couples, like 'common-law' partnerships.
They didn't marry but have rights as a common-law couple after cohabiting for years.
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People and Bears Live in...
still could string tight topography and that's the really important point there there's only a limited amount of land here when you have you know species like grizzly bears and cougars you know cohabiting in areas where there's a lot of human activity is a real real challenge
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Floating cities, the...
It's a tool that empowers the child to build his or her own world, and then to inhabit that world through play and to invite her friends to join her in cohabiting and cocreating that world. And that is exactly what formgivning is.
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People and Bears Live in...
still could string tight topography and that's the really important point there there's only a limited amount of land here when you have you know species like grizzly bears and cougars you know cohabiting in areas where there's a lot of human activity is a real real challenge
Video examples
Floating cities, the...
It's a tool that empowers the child to build his or her own world, and then to inhabit that world through play and to invite her friends to join her in cohabiting and cocreating that world. And that is exactly what formgivning is.
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Quote examples
Lisa Murkowski
American Politician
With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay?
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Todd Tiahrt
American Politician
Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.
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Byron Howard
American Director
We thought a human city is kind of like that watering hole. It's where different groups come together and have to find ways to live and survive and cohabit and cooperate, but they may not always see eye-to-eye.
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Victoria Woodhull
American Activist
Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
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Sloane Crosley
American Writer
Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers.
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Sandra Tsing Loh
American Writer
I cohabited for 20 years with my longtime husband and father of my two now-teen daughters in a stable family household.
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Stephanie Coontz
American Author
Cohabitation itself doesn't cause ineffective parenting.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
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Lisa Murkowski
American Politician
With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay?
Quote examples
Todd Tiahrt
American Politician
Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.
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Byron Howard
American Director
We thought a human city is kind of like that watering hole. It's where different groups come together and have to find ways to live and survive and cohabit and cooperate, but they may not always see eye-to-eye.
Quote examples
Victoria Woodhull
American Activist
Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
Quote examples
Sloane Crosley
American Writer
Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers.
Quote examples
Sandra Tsing Loh
American Writer
I cohabited for 20 years with my longtime husband and father of my two now-teen daughters in a stable family household.
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Stephanie Coontz
American Author
Cohabitation itself doesn't cause ineffective parenting.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman Statesman
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
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