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COHABIT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cohabit mean?
• COHABIT (verb)
The verb COHABIT has 2 senses:
1. share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple
Familiarity information: COHABIT used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: cohabited
Past participle: cohabited
-ing form: cohabiting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
cohabit; live together; shack up
Hypernyms (to "cohabit" is one way to...):
dwell; inhabit; live; populate (be an inhabitant of or reside in)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cohabit"):
miscegenate (marry or cohabit with a person of another race)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
cohabitation (the act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Exist together
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
coexist; cohabit
Hypernyms (to "cohabit" is one way to...):
be; exist (have an existence, be extant)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cohabit"):
coexist (coexist peacefully, as of nations)
co-occur; coincide; cooccur (go with, fall together)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Context examples
It was important to collect information on both, since people may live alone but not feel lonely while others cohabit but do feel lonely.
(Loneliness Is Bad for Heart, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
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