cohabitation
(noun) the act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
cohabitation (countable and uncountable, plural cohabitations)
An emotional and physical intimate relationship which includes a common living place and which exists without legal or religious sanction.
The act of living together.
A place where two or more individuals reside together.
(biology) The act of two species living together in the same habitat.
(politics) Cooperation between politicians of opposing political parties; especially, in France, between a President and Prime Minister.
• marriage, civil union
Source: Wiktionary
Co*hab"i*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. cohabitatio.]
1. The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another. Feltham.
2. (Law)
Definition: The living together of a man and woman in supposed sexual relationship. That the duty of cohabitation is released by the cruelty of one of the parties is admitted. Lord Stowell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 November 2024
(noun) asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
