Cohabit Definition

kō-hăbĭt
cohabited, cohabiting, cohabits
verb
cohabited, cohabiting, cohabits
To live together as husband and wife, esp. when not legally married.
Webster's New World
To live or exist together; share the same place.
Webster's New World
To coexist, as animals of different species.
American Heritage Medicine

(intransitive, archaic) To engage in sexual intercourse; see coition.

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Origin of Cohabit

  • Late Latin cohabitāre Latin co- co- Latin habitāre to dwell inhabit

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin cohabitō; co- + habitō (“I dwell, I live in”).

    From Wiktionary

Cohabit Sentence Examples

  • It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or cohabit, or sleep sensually.

  • Sixteen per cent of couples with dependent children now cohabit rather than marry.

  • If she were left without maintenance during her husband's involuntary absence, she could cohabit with another man, but must return to her husband if he came back, the children of the second union remaining with their own father.

  • Scheduling prescribed times for each parent to have the child cohabit with them avoids misunderstandings on all sides and creates an atmosphere of stability and organization.

  • His father, a man of immoral life, was with difficulty persuaded to cohabit with his wife.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOH

Words Ending With

TITBIT

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cohabit

Words Starting With C and Ending With T

Starts With C & Ends With TStarts With CO & Ends With TStarts With C & Ends With IT

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With C7 Letter Words Ending With T