COHABITATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Hypernyms ("cohabitation" is a kind of...):

habitation; inhabitancy; inhabitation (the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cohabitation"):

concubinage (cohabitation without being legally married)

Derivation:

cohabit (share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple)