Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A house which lets out furnished apartments.
WordNet
n. a house where rooms are rented [syn: lodging house]
Usage examples of "rooming house".
I'll buy that toasted cadaver hauled out of the Dugan rooming house as the real Brick Flanders, if you'll let me run over to Durango with a federal writ allowing me to open the so-called grave of the late Calvert Tyger.
He got to his feet, walked across the room, and a moment later he had left the rooming house and crossed the empty street.
At quarter to five, thirty-seven-year-old John Richardson, a porter at the Spitalfields Market, headed toward 29 Han-bury Street, a rooming house for the poor that, like so many other dilapidated dwellings in Spitalfields, had once been a barnlike workplace for weavers to toil on hand looms until steam power had put them out of business.
She's moved to a room in the rooming house off the street here, and she mostly just stays in it.
She was a cat meat saleswoman whose shop was inside the rooming house.
It was just a cheap rooming house, and I didnt like the manager at all.
The shot was fired from the fifth floor of a walkup rooming house on the street.
The moment he stepped into the warm rooming house, he had begun to feel tired, so tired that it was a strain even to carry the child up one flight of stairs.
It was just a cheap rooming house, and I didn't like the manager at all.
Wanted to know if Edda Lou and Tucker had had any fights there in the rooming house.
I guess I was enough of a pest that she relented and let me escort her to what she said was her aunt's rooming house.
He'll telephone her in the late afternoon and no answer, he'll arrive at the rooming house at seven as they'd planned but of course she isn't there, nor any message, nor has the house manager seen Graice Courtney since that morning.