Meanings
present singular third person cohabits · participle present cohabiting · participle past cohabited · past cohabited
- intransitiveTo live together with someone else, especially in a romantic and sexual relationship but without being married.
Synonyms: cohabitate
- governmentTo cooperate with an opposing political party.
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
2024 June 16, Observer editorial, “The Observer view on the French election: Emmanuel Macron is playing a dangerous game”, in The Observer, →ISSN
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo live together with someone else, especially in a romantic and sexual relationship but without being married.
to engage in sexual intercourse
More synonyms by meaning
verbshare living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latincohabitō
- Englishcohabit
From Latin cohabitō; co- + habitō (“to dwell, to live in”).
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian съжи́телствувам
- съжи́телствувам (săžítelstvuvam)live together as if married
Catalan cohabitar
- cohabitarlive together as if married
Chinese Mandarin 同居, 姘居
- 同居 (tóngjū)live together as if married
- 姘居 (pīnjū)live together as if married
Dutch samenwonen, samenleven
- samenwonenlive together as if married
- samenlevenlive together as if married
- hokkenlive together as if married
French cohabiter
- cohabiterlive together as if married
German zusammenleben
- zusammenlebenlive together as if married
Hindi सहवास
- सहवास (sahvās)live together as if married
Hungarian együtt él
- együtt éllive together as if married
Japanese 同棲する
- 同棲する (dōsei suru)live together as if married
Russian сожи́тельствовать
- сожи́тельствовать (sožítelʹstvovatʹ)live together as if married
Spanish convivir, cohabitar
- convivirlive together as if married
- cohabitarlive together as if married
Turkish beraber yaşamak, beraber olmak
- beraber yaşamaklive together as if married
- beraber olmaklive together as if married
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with cohabit
All rhymes →Cite this entry
cohabit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cohabit
“cohabit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cohabit. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cohabit,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cohabit.
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