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LIVE TOGETHER
Dictionary entry overview: What does live together mean?
• LIVE TOGETHER (verb)
The verb LIVE TOGETHER has 1 sense:
1. share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple
Familiarity information: LIVE TOGETHER used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 "live together" is one way to...):
dwell; inhabit; live; populate (be an inhabitant of or reside in)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "live together"):
miscegenate (marry or cohabit with a person of another race)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Context examples
Some will let couples live together.
(Nursing Homes, NIH: National Institute on Aging)
He was to be another father to him, and they were all to live together in a garden of roses, weren't they?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Charlotte laughed heartily to think that her husband could not get rid of her; and exultingly said, she did not care how cross he was to her, as they must live together.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
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