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US
/koʊˈhæbɪt/
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[ UK /kəʊhˈæbɪt/ ]
[ UK /kəʊhˈæbɪt/ ]
VERB
- share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple
- exist together
How To Use cohabit In A Sentence
- I have been cohabiting with my partner for over five years.
- Gesenius considers this equivalent with "cohabit;" and from this single passage draws the sense which he assigns to [Hebrew: 'iyzebel] This seems rather far-fetched. Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850
- The decline in marriage has been offset by a rise in cohabitation.
- Bibliomaniacs were censured, that is, for eschewing commonplace means of engaging the material traces of the literary past and commonplace means of cohabiting with the nation's literary tradition. "Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists
- I have no desire to cohabit with a hound, however high-bred.
- Family campaigners said they were disappointed that the public thought cohabiting and marriage were the same. Times, Sunday Times
- This discipline looks at the positives of marriage and committed cohabitation, at what binds people together. Times, Sunday Times
- The issue of bias cohabiting with immense media power was on the table.
- August 25th, 2009 10: 04 am ET you and your dingbat daughter pleasse go back under the rock where you both cohabitate. Cheney takes swipe at Obama over prosecutor
- Meanwhile, 66% of women and 69% of men married 10 years had never cohabited. Report: Cohabiting has little effect on marriage success