to live together
- phrasal verb
- /lɪv təˈɡɛðər/
- NSFW
- Nat and Pete live together now.
- couples living together
- married or living together
- live together harmoniously
And so you figure out how to live together like we do.
- And so you figure out how to live together like we do.
- You know, you don't have to like live together, right?
- It's like get together and then live together.
- Well, just because we're apart, it doesn't mean we can't live together.
Examples
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So, now we all live together in New York.
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I want us to live together.
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Would you say that living together so far has been good?
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And so you figure out how to live together like we do.
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And from there you can start to figure out whether living together feels right.
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So when we were first living together, we were, you know, we used the same shower.
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Maybe when I get out we can live together again.
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We had been married ten years and lived together for two before that.
Fiction book (1990) -
We decided to share the house, to live together, with no hard rules.
Fiction book (1990) -
My partner and I decided to live together after dating for six months.
Synonyms
To live together as a couple without being married
A couple who live together and have sex without being married, often seen as wrong by some people
To live together in the same home as a couple who are not married
To live together as a couple and have sex without being married
Antonyms
How Committed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The core meaning 'to share a home' is directly derivable from combining 'live' (inhabit) with 'together' (in the same place); this simple compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words will grasp the basic sense. The additional nuance about a sexual relationship or marital status is pragmatic and may not be fully inferred in every context, but it does not make the expression non-compositional.
Etymology
Live together comes from the simple image of two people who live under the same roof and do things together. That's why it means 'share a home and live as a couple without being married'.