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Definition of cohabit
intransitive verb
1 : to live together as or as if a married couple They cohabited in a small apartment.
2a : to live together or in company buffaloes cohabiting with crossbred cows — Biol. Abstractsb : to exist together … two strains in his philosophy … cohabit in each of his major works. — Justus Buchler So riches seemed to provoke their own discomfort, and affluence cohabited with anxiety. — Simon Schama
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Examples of cohabit in a Sentence
They cohabited in a small apartment in the city.
Recent Examples of cohabit from the Web
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Buckner International, a large agency based in Texas, specifies on its web site that applicants seeking to adopt should be heterosexual married couples or single adults who are not cohabiting with a partner.
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The decline occurred only among cohabiting or married individuals rather than their single or dating counterparts.
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This tough economy has compelled divorcing couples to continue to cohabit.
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People were having children and cohabiting, but not necessarily forever.
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A recent survey by HomeAdvisor asked 2,000 cohabiting women and men for their strongest home preferences, a.k.a.
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Perhaps the biggest innovation has been Craig’s uncanny eye for assimilating animals into cohabiting groups.
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But Tobias and colleagues suspected that species that cohabit tend to be older than those that live apart.
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Origin and Etymology of cohabit
Late Latin cohabitare, from Latin co- + habitare to inhabit, from frequentative of habēre to have — more at give
COHABIT Defined for English Language Learners
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: to live together and have a sexual relationship
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