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cohabitate

cohabitate verb: to cohabit.

Verb

cohabitate (third-person singular simple present cohabitates, present participle cohabitating, simple past and past participle cohabitated)

  1. To cohabit.
    • Rabbits can be housed with other species; pet birds such as parakeets cohabitate well with rabbits.2020, Katherine Quesenberry, Christoph Mans, Connie Orcutt, Ferrets, Rabbits and Rodents

Forms of cohabitate

third-person singular presentcohabitates
present participlecohabitating
past participlecohabitated
pastcohabitated

Origin of cohabitate

Back-formation from cohabitation.

Questions about cohabitate

What does cohabitate mean?
Cohabitate means to cohabit.
What part of speech is cohabitate?
Cohabitate is a verb.
What is the past tense of cohabitate?
The past tense of cohabitate is cohabitated.

Words near cohabitate in the dictionary

  1. cohabit
  2. cohabitancy
  3. cohabitant
  4. cohabitantly
  5. cohabitants
  6. cohabitate
  7. cohabitated
  8. cohabitates
  9. cohabitating
  10. cohabitation
  11. cohabitational

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