cohabitation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: co=hab=i=ta=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

cohabitation, n. [L. cohabitatio.].

•  The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another.  Feltham.  [1913 Webster]
•  The living together of a man and woman in supposed sexual relationship.  [1913 Webster]

  "That the duty of cohabitation is released by the cruelty of one of the parties is admitted."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

cohabitation

a world-without-end bargain, abiding, abode, act of love, adultery, alliance, aphrodisia, ass, balling, bed, bond of matrimony, bridebed, carnal knowledge, climax, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, commerce, commorancy, congress, conjugal bond, conjugal knot, connection, copula, copulation, coupling, coverture, diddling, dwelling, fornication, habitancy, habitation, holy matrimony, holy wedlock, husbandhood, ill-assorted marriage, inhabitancy, inhabitation, inhabiting, intercourse, intermarriage, interracial marriage, intimacy, living, lodging, lovemaking, making it with, marital relations, marriage, marriage act, marriage bed, marriage sacrament, match, mating, matrimonial union, matrimony, meat, mesalliance, misalliance, miscegenation, mixed marriage, nesting, nuptial bond, occupancy, occupation, onanism, orgasm, ovum, pareunia, procreation, relations, residence, residency, residing, sacrament of matrimony, screwing, sex, sex act, sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union, sleeping with, sojourning, sperm, spousehood, squatting, staying, staying over, stopping, tenancy, union, venery, wedded bliss, wedded state, weddedness, wedding knot, wedlock, wifehood

ROGET THESAURUS

cohabitation

Location

N location, localization, lodgment, deposition, reposition, stowage, package, collocation, packing, lading, establishment, settlement, installation, fixation, insertion, habitat, environment, surroundings (situation), circumjacence, anchorage, mooring, encampment, plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment, colonization, domestication, situation, habitation, cohabitation, a local habitation and a name, endenization, naturalization, placed, situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed, rooted, domesticated, vested in, unremoved, moored, at anchor.

Marriage

N marriage, matrimony, wedlock, union, intermarriage, miscegenation, the bonds of marriage, vinculum matrimonii, nuptial tie, married state, coverture, bed, cohabitation, match, betrothment, wedding, nuptials, Hymen, bridal, espousals, spousals, leading to the altar, nuptial benediction, epithalamium, sealing, torch of Hymen, temple of Hymen, hymeneal altar, honeymoon, bridesmaid, bridesman, best man, bride, bridegroom, married man, married woman, married couple, neogamist, Benedict, partner, spouse, mate, yokemate, husband, man, consort, baron, old man, good man, wife of one's bosom, helpmate, rib, better half, gray mare, old woman, old lady, good wife, goodwife, feme, feme coverte, squaw, lady, matron, matronage, matronhood, man and wife, wedded pair, Darby and Joan, spiritual wife, monogamy, bigamy, digamy, deuterogamy, trigamy, polygamy, mormonism, levirate, spiritual wifery, spiritual wifeism, polyandrism, Turk, bluebeard, unlawful marriage, left-handed marriage, morganatic marriage, ill- assorted marriage, mesalliance, mariage de convenance, marriage broker, matrimonial agency, matrimonial agent, matrimonial bureau, matchmaker, schatchen, married, one, one bone and one flesh, marriageable, nubile, engaged, betrothed, affianced, matrimonial, marital, conjugal, connubial, wedded, nuptial, hymeneal, spousal, bridal, the gray mare the better horse, a world-without-end bargain, marriages are made in Heaven, render me worthy of this noble wife, si qua voles apte nubere nube pari.