cohabiting couple
Sharing a home
A cohabiting couple is two people living together in a romantic or sexual relationship without being married.
The term appears frequently in legal, demographic, and social policy contexts where the distinction from married couples matters: The survey counted both married and cohabiting couples.
In everyday speech, people more often say living together or partners.
- live-inResiding at work
- partnersJoint venture participants
- living togetherSharing a dwelling
- unmarriedNot legally wed
- domesticOf the home
domestic partnership · relationship · significant other · sharing · shared space · lease · apartment · intimacy · commitment · boyfriend · girlfriend · splitting · rent · together · household · common-law · common law marriage · playing house
cohabiting couplemarried couple
Two joined in matrimony
husband and wife · spouses · civil partners · newlyweds · man and wife
cohabiting coupleroommates
People sharing a residence
housemates · flatmates · co-tenants · lodgers · boarders
cohabit, cohabits, cohabited, cohabitation, cohabitant, cohabitants, habit, habitation, habitable