cohabit

Definition

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

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "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"

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