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cohabiting

cohabiting is the present participle and gerund of cohabit.

Meaning of cohabit

Verb

cohabit (third-person singular simple present cohabits, present participle cohabiting, simple past and past participle cohabited)

  1. (intransitive) To live together with someone else, especially in a romantic and sexual relationship but without being married.
    Synonyms:
    cohabitate
  2. (intransitive) To coexist in common environs with.
  3. (archaic, intransitive) To have sex; see coition.
  4. 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 protege2024 June 16, Observer editorial, “The Observer view on the French election: Emmanuel Macron is playing a dangerous game”, in The Observer, →ISSN

Words formed from cohabiting

Questions about cohabiting

What is cohabiting the present participle and gerund of?
Cohabiting is the present participle and gerund of cohabit.

Words near cohabiting in the dictionary

  1. cohabited
  2. cohabitee
  3. cohabitees
  4. cohabiter
  5. cohabiters
  6. cohabiting
  7. cohabitor
  8. cohabitors
  9. cohabits
  10. cohabs
  11. Cohan

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