[a. OF. cohabitant, ad. L. cohabitānt-em, pr. pple. of cohabitāre to COHABIT. Cf. HABITANT.] One who dwells together with another or others.
1575. 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, 36. Swallows, martins and wwifts … become cohabitants of our houses.
