What does cohabitation mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cohabitationnoun

    the act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married)

Wiktionary

  1. cohabitationnoun

    An emotional and physical intimate relationship which includes a common living place and which exists without legal or religious sanction.

  2. cohabitationnoun

    The act of living together.

  3. cohabitationnoun

    A place where two or more individuals reside together.

  4. cohabitationnoun

    The act of two species living together in the same habitat.

  5. cohabitationnoun

    Cooperation between politicians of opposing political parties; especially, in France, between a President and Prime Minister.

  6. Etymology: From cohabitation, from cohabitationem.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Cohabitationnoun

    Etymology: from cohabit.

    Which defect, though it could not evacuate a marriage after cohabitation, and actual consummation, yet it was enough to make void a contract. Francis Bacon, Henry VII.

    Monsieur Brumars, at one hundred and two years, died for love of his wife, who was ninety-two at her death, after seventy years cohabitation. Tatler, №. 56.

Wikipedia

  1. Cohabitation

    Cohabitation is an arrangement where people who are not married, usually couples, live together. They are often involved in a romantic or sexually intimate relationship on a long-term or permanent basis. Such arrangements have become increasingly common in Western countries since the late 20th century, being led by changing social views, especially regarding marriage, gender roles and religion. More broadly, the term cohabitation can mean any number of people living together. To "cohabit", in a broad sense, means to "coexist". The origin of the term comes from the mid 16th century, from the Latin cohabitare, from co- 'together' + habitare 'dwell'.

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  1. cohabitation

    Cohabitation refers to the act of living together in a domestic partnership or intimate relationship, typically between unmarried individuals who share a sexual, romantic, and affectional relationship. This can reflect a spectrum of types of relationships and dynamics, ranging from an arrangement similar to marriage to a more informal, less committed relationship. The term cohabitation is often used in sociological and legal contexts.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Cohabitationnoun

    the act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another

  2. Cohabitationnoun

    the living together of a man and woman in supposed sexual relationship

  3. Etymology: [L. cohabitatio.]

Wikidata

  1. Cohabitation

    Cohabitation is an arrangement where two people who are not married live together in an intimate relationship, particularly an emotionally and/or sexually intimate one, on a long-term or permanent basis. More broadly, the term cohabitation can mean any number of people living together.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cohabitation in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cohabitation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of cohabitation in a Sentence

  1. Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry:

    The Ecuadorian government notices that these falsehoods are also an attempt to tarnish the dignity of the country, when they issue falsehoods, the asylee and his associates express once more their ingratitude and disrespect towards Ecuador, instead of showing gratitude towards the country that has welcomed him for nearly seven years, incurred significant expenditures to pay for his stay at the embassy, has borne their rudeness and to whom he, paradoxically, has filed a lawsuit against for adopting a cohabitation protocol in order to prevent his bad behavior from taking place again.

  2. Mahamat Ahmat Alhabo:

    Most of us are in favour of cohabitation between the military, politicians and civil society, the Malian model ... is very inspiring.

  3. Thomas Szasz:

    The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.

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