What does "cohabit" mean?

To live together with someone else, especially in a romantic and sexual relationship but without being married.

What is a synonym for "cohabit"?

Common synonyms include: abide, approach, ball, bang, be intimate, beat.

//koʊˈhæbɪt// verb

verb ·Moderate ·College level

Verb

1
To live together with someone else, especially in a romantic and sexual relationship but without being married. intransitive
2
exist together wordnet
3
To coexist in common environs with. intransitive
4
share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple wordnet
5
To have sex; see coition. archaic, intransitive

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6
To 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"

"Two players cannot cohabit the same space."

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

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