cohabit

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

• IPA^(key): /koʊˈhæbɪt/

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• Rhymes: -æbɪt

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 have sex; 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

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

• cohabitation