cohabitant
(kəʊˈhæbɪtənt)
[a. OF. cohabitant, ad. L. cohabitānt-em, pr. pple. of cohabitāre to cohabit. Cf. habitant.]
One who dwells together with another or others.
| 1576 J. Woolton Chr. Manual L vj b (T.), Covetousness transferreth her poison into cohabitants. 1614 Raleigh Hist. World ii. 546 No small number of the Danes became peaceable cohabitants with the Saxons in England. 1666 Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 177 My old friend and fellow-traveller (cohabitant and contemporary at Rome). 1831 Howitt Seasons 38 Swallows, Martins and Swifts..become cohabitants of our houses. |