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COHABITATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cohabitation mean?
• COHABITATION (noun)
The noun COHABITATION has 1 sense:
1. the act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married)
Familiarity information: COHABITATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("cohabitation" is a kind of...):
habitation; inhabitancy; inhabitation (the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cohabitation"):
concubinage (cohabitation without being legally married)
Derivation:
cohabit (share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple)
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