COHABIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cohabit mean? 

• COHABIT (verb)
  The verb COHABIT has 2 senses:

1. share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple

2. exist together

  Familiarity information: COHABIT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COHABIT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they cohabit    ... he / she / it cohabits   
Past simple: cohabited   
Past participle: cohabited   
-ing form: cohabiting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

cohabit; live together; shack up

Hypernyms (to "cohabit" is one way to...):

dwell; inhabit; live; populate (be an inhabitant of or reside in)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cohabit"):

miscegenate (marry or cohabit with a person of another race)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

cohabitation (the act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Exist together

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

coexist; cohabit

Hypernyms (to "cohabit" is one way to...):

be; exist (have an existence, be extant)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cohabit"):

coexist (coexist peacefully, as of nations)

co-occur; coincide; cooccur (go with, fall together)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

It was important to collect information on both, since people may live alone but not feel lonely while others cohabit but do feel lonely.

(Loneliness Is Bad for Heart, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)