unmarried couple
Cohabiting romantic partners
An unmarried couple is two people in a romantic relationship who live together or are otherwise partnered but not legally married.
The phrase appears frequently in legal, medical, and bureaucratic contexts where marital status matters: The lease allows unmarried couples to apply jointly.
In casual speech, people more often say "partner" or "boyfriend/girlfriend."
- partnersJoint venture participants
- long-term partnerEnduring romantic companion
- life partnerCommitted romantic companion
- cohabitingSharing a residence unmarried
- living togetherSharing a dwelling
shacking up · playing house · boyfriend · girlfriend · lovers · romance · dating · Netflix and chill · commitment · meeting the parents · domestic · domestic partnership · household · joint account · relationship · engagement · common-law · significant other
- familymother, father, parents, siblings, parent
- householdshousehold, nuclear family, residents, occupants, roommates
- living arrangementscohabitation, roommates, housemates, shared housing, house share
- cohabitationcohabitation, cohabiting, cohabitants, living together, live-in partner
unmarried couplemarried couple
Two joined in matrimony
husband and wife · spouses · man and wife · newlyweds · civil partners
unmarried, couple, married, marry, marriage, marriageable, remarry, remarried, remarriage