cohabit

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koʊˈhæbɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æbɪt

Verb

cohabit (third-person singular simple present cohabits, present participle cohabiting, simple past and past participle cohabited)

1. (intransitive) To live together with someone else, especially in a romantic and sexual relationship but without being married.
2. (intransitive) To coexist in common environs with.
3. (intransitive, archaic) To engage in sexual intercourse; see coition.
4. (politics) To cooperate with an opposing political party.
   • 2024 June 16, Observer editorial, “The Observer view on the French election: Emmanuel Macron is playing a dangerous game”, in The Observer‎^[1], →ISSN:

     An outright far-right victory in the two-round poll, which commences on 30 June, could render Macron a lame duck, doomed to “cohabit” with an overtly xenophobic, Islamophobic, authoritarian and illiberal government led, prospectively, by Jordan Bardella, Le Pen’s young protege

Synonyms

• (to live together with someone else): cohabitate
• (to engage in sexual intercourse): fornicate, have sex, make love; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Derived terms

• cohabitee
• cohabitor
• noncohabiting

 

Related terms

• cohabitation

Translations

live together as if married

• Bulgarian: съжи́телствувам impf (sǎžítelstvuvam)
• Catalan: cohabitar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 同居 (zh) (tóngjū), 姘居 (zh) (pīnjū) (in an illicit manner)

• Dutch: samenwonen (nl), samenleven (nl) , hokken (nl) (outdated)
• French: cohabiter (fr)
• German: zusammenleben (de)
• Hungarian: együtt él
• Japanese: 同棲する (ja) (どうせいする, dōsei suru)
• Russian: сожи́тельствовать (ru) impf (sožítelʹstvovatʹ)
• Spanish: convivir (es), cohabitar (es)
• Turkish: beraber yaşamak, beraber olmak
• Uyghur: ھەمياستۇق (hemyastuq)

Translations

be together

• Apache:

  Western Apache: naiágúóli

• Maori: noho tahi
• Turkish: beraber olmak, beraber bulunmak