Definitions for cohabit

cohabit co·hab·it

Spelling: [koh-hab-it]
IPA: /koʊˈhæb ɪt/

Cohabit is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 175 anagrams from letters in cohabit (abchiot).

Definitions for cohabit

verb (used without object)

  1. to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
  2. to live together in an intimate relationship.
  3. to dwell with another or share the same place, as different species of animals.

Origin of cohabit

1520-30; Late Latin cohabitāre, equivalent to co- co- + habitāre to have possession, abide (frequentative of habēre to have, own)

Examples for cohabit

Negroe slaves (in the colonies) allowed to cohabit and separate at pleasure, 36.

She reflected: 'How does he, after having produced me from himself, cohabit with me?

His father, a man of immoral life, was with difficulty persuaded to cohabit with his wife.

They are rarely married, but cohabit with some man for the sake of his protection.

It must, moreover, be noted that experience shows conception occurs rarer with women who cohabit with several men.

I do not believe that very near connections by blood ever cohabit.

The natives of the Gold Coast and many other African tribes regard it as a shameful offense to cohabit during gestation.

He did not cohabit with Catherine during his father's lifetime.

She was now forty-one years of age, and had ceased for nearly two years to cohabit with her husband.

She reflected, 'How does he, after having produced me from himself, cohabit with me?

Word Value for cohabit
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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