Thesaurus results for COHABITS

cohabits

verb

present tense third-person singular of cohabit

as in lives

formal to share a home and have a sexual relationship They cohabited in a small apartment in the city.

Related Words

Relevance

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for cohabits

Verb

Soon after that conversation, Miller, who lives around the corner from the school, looked out the window and saw followers on the school roof with binoculars looking back.

— Zander Sherman, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026
Stay Disciplined With SaaS Founders who ignore SaaS creep risk paying for tools their teams don’t use, duplicating functionality, and losing sight of where critical data actually lives.

— Alison Coleman, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of lives

Verb

Candy died of a heart attack in March 1994, at 43; the service was held just around the corner from his Brentwood home, where Rosemary still resides and her late husband’s presence still fills the house.

— Jenelle Riley, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Perhaps most notable this year is the Golden Plunge indoor swimming pool, which was originally constructed around 1926 and still resides under the venue’s floor, empty of water of course.

— Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 31 July 2026

Definition of resides

Verb

Microsoft occupies a unique position in cyber defense due to its massive enterprise install base as the largest global provider of general-purpose software.

— Will Townsend, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
The system occupies about one-seventy-fifth the volume of an active hydrogen maser while offering lower phase noise and stronger short-term stability.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of occupies

Verb

The durable prize is the physical form factor intelligence eventually inhabits.

— Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
The singer’s fourth album inhabits a balmy medium zone of relentlessly moderate tempos and subdued vocals, where even brief moments of intriguing tension and fuzz get flattened into homogeneity.

— Mitch Therieau, Pitchfork, 30 July 2026

Definition of inhabits

Verb

To prove the unused car stays that way, participants will be using GoCarma’s smartphone app to keep track of odometer readings.

— Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
Toberman, a former real estate developer in the United States and France, stays fit by playing pickleball nearly every day, usually for two hours at a time, along with water and snow skiing.

— Nancy Badertscher, AJC.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of stays

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

cohabiting

cohabits

cohead

See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

Style

“Cohabits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cohabits. Accessed 12 Aug. 2026.

Copy Citation

Synonyms of cohabits

verb

Example Sentences

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

More from Merriam-Webster on cohabits

More from Merriam-Webster

Word of the Day

gnomic

Popular in Grammar & Usage

7 Pairs of Commonly Confused Words

Merriam-Webster’s Great Big List of Words You Love to Hate

Is that lie 'bald-faced' or 'bold-faced'?

'A' or 'an'? What about before 'h'? An Indefinite Article Guide

Why is '-ed' sometimes pronounced at the end of a word?

Popular in Wordplay

The Longest Long Words List

It's a Scorcher! Words for the Summer Heat

14 Phobias You Probably Haven't Heard Of

The Words of the Week - Aug. 7

12 Lovely and Unusual Words for the Natural World

Popular

7 Pairs of Commonly Confused Words

The Longest Long Words List

It's a Scorcher! Words for the Summer Heat

Games & Quizzes