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Definition of Cohabit
1. Verb. Share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple.
Generic synonyms: Dwell, Inhabit, Live, Populate
Specialized synonyms: Miscegenate
Derivative terms: Cohabitation
Definition of Cohabit
1. v. i. To inhabit or reside in company, or in the same place or country.
Definition of Cohabit
1. Verb. (intransitive) To reside with another as if married or as a married couple. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To coexist in common environs with. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive archaic) To engage in sexual intercourse; see coition. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cohabit
1. to live together as man and wife while unmarried [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cohabit
Literary usage of Cohabit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"The word ' cohabit,' in this section, Is to be understood in a technical or
restricted sense. It does not apply to all persons who live with each other ..."
2. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1890)
"... viz, " If any man and woman, not being married to each other, shall lewdly
and lasciviously associate and cohabit together" the rule was laid down that ..."
3. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Vendors and Purchasers of Chattels by Thomas Charles Morton (1836)
"Where husband and wife cohabit. 2. Where they do not cohabit, and the act of
separation is on the part of the husband. 3. Where they do not cohabit, ..."
4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1916)
"Under an indictment charging that the defendants unlawfully did be<l and cohabit
together without being lawfully married, and then and there did commit ..."
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