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Cohabitation is the noun: the state or arrangement of living with a partner, including a sexual relationship, without being married. Lawyers, researchers, and newspapers use it when they need a cool, exact name for that way of life — rights, children, money, how long it lasted. In everyday talk people just say living together. Though actually, in French and sometimes in English political writing, cohabitation can also mean two rival parties sharing power; that is a different picture. For , the home-and-couple meaning is the one this word is carrying here.
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組成From Middle English cohabitacioun, from Old French cohabitacion and Late Latin cohabitātiō. On the surface: co- (together) + habitation (a place, or the act of living somewhere).
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- cohabitthe verb this noun is built on
- habitationliving in a place; this word adds co- “together”
- inhabitsame Latin dwelling root; to live in a place
- habitatsame dwelling root; the place a plant or animal lives
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cohabitationnoun/koʊhæbɪˈteɪʃən/
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An emotional and physical intimate relationship which includes a common living place and which exists without legal or religious sanction.
- According to Greene, sodomy, gross indecency, adultery, cohabitation and repeated convictions for indecent exposure are all considered sex offenses in Michigan.
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The act of living together.
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A place where two or more individuals reside together.
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biologynatural-sciencesThe act of two species living together in the same habitat.
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governmentpoliticsCooperation between politicians of opposing political parties; especially, in France, between a President and Prime Minister.
- Commentators agreed that Mr Chirac's unusually aggressive remarks, followed by the equally fierce response of Mr Jospin's government, signalled the beginning of the end for the tense but so far civil "cohabitation" under which the two men have ruled France since 1997.
- She said: “I am respectful of institutions; I am not calling for institutional chaos. There will simply be a cohabitation.”
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。