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# cohabitation

«cohabitation» in Mova's school dictionary: **living together as a couple without being married** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (cohabitation, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) Cohabitation is living together as a couple without being married. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cohabitation/#m1)

2) (formal) Cohabitation is living together in the same place: «the cohabitation of different species». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cohabitation/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in formal writing, law, news and exam questions about families and society. In science it can describe different living things sharing a habitat. In everyday talk people say «living together».

### examples

- Cohabitation has become more common. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cohabitation/#x1)
- The report looked at marriage and cohabitation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cohabitation/#x2)
- The cohabitation of cats and dogs in our house is peaceful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cohabitation/#x3)
- Laws about cohabitation are different in each country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cohabitation/#x4)
- The zoo studied the cohabitation of the animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cohabitation/#x5)
- Their cohabitation lasted ten years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cohabitation/#x6)

### note

Formal and uncountable. From «cohabit».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cohabitation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cohabitation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.