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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
roommate
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I ran into my old college roommate today.
▪ We were roommates back in Chicago.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Charity Chin, my roommate, is sitting on the floor drinking Chablis out of a plastic wineglass.
▪ He and his co-Web site founders, who are also his roommates, will graduate in May.
▪ I came out to my roommate.
▪ I had just moved in late December, fleeing a nightmare roommate situation in the Village.
▪ I shared a taxicab with the Stephens College student and her roommate, who had come to meet her at the airport.
▪ They became roommates, not lovers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roommate

Roommate \Room"mate`\, n. One of two or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
roommate

also room-mate, 1789, American English, from room (n.) + mate (n.). Short form roomie is from 1918.

Wiktionary
roommate

n. 1 A person with whom one shares a room, as at university etc. 2 (context US, AU, CA English) A person (UK: flatmate, AU: sharemate) sharing the same home (sharehome).

WordNet
roommate

n. an associate who shares a room with you

Wikipedia
Roommate

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A roommate is a person who shares a living facility such as an apartment or dormitory. Similar terms include suitemate, housemate, flatmate ("flat": the usual term in British English for an apartment - in New Zealand, "flatmate" is solely used, regardless of whether the dwelling is an apartment or a detached house), or sharemate (shared living spaces are often called sharehomes in Australia and other Commonwealth countries). A sharehome is a model of household in which a group of usually unrelated people reside together. The term generally applies to people living together in rental properties rather than in properties in which any resident is an owner occupier. In the UK, the term "roommate" means a person living in the same bedroom, whereas in the United States and Canada, "roommate" and "housemate" are used interchangeably regardless whether a bedroom is shared, although it is common in US universities that having a roommate implies sharing a room together. This article uses the term "roommate" in the US sense of a person one shares a residence with who is not a relative or significant other. The informal term for roommate is roomie, which is commonly used by university students.

The most common reason for sharing housing is to reduce the cost of housing. In many rental markets, the monthly rent for a two- or three-bedroom apartment is proportionately less per bedroom than the rent for a one-bedroom apartment (in other words, a three-bedroom flat costs more than a one-bedroom, but not three times as much). By pooling their monthly housing money, a group of people can achieve a lower housing expense at the cost of less privacy. Other motivations are to gain better amenities than those available in single-person housing, to share the work of maintaining a household, and to have the companionship of other people.

People become room-mates when they move into a rental property, with one or more of them having applied to rent the property through a real estate agent, being accepted and having signed a lease.

Roommate (band)

Roommate is a band from Chicago, IL.

Roommate (disambiguation)

A roommate is a person who shares living quarters.

Roommate or Roommates may also refer to:

Roommate (TV series)

Roommate is a South Korean reality show; formerly part of SBS's Good Sunday lineup. It was first scheduled to be aired on April 20, 2014, but due to the Sewol ferry tragedy and the temporary broadcast halt, the airing date was pushed to May 4, 2014. The show features eleven celebrities living together in a share house, sharing common spaces such as the kitchen, living room, and washrooms, as well as household tasks. The house features sixty cameras and five bedrooms.

Six of the original eleven roommates have left the show ending the first season of Roommate on September 14, 2014. Seven new roommates have been added for a brand new second season beginning September 21, 2014. With the return of K-pop Star to Good Sunday, Roommate moved to airing every Tuesday at 11:15 pm as a stand-alone program starting November 25, 2014. The second season was cancelled due to low ratings with the final episode airing on April 14, 2015. It was confirmed that there will be no season 3.

Roommate (2013 film)

is a 2013 Japanese psychological horror film directed by Takeshi Furusawa and based on the novel Rūmumeito by Aya Imamura.

Usage examples of "roommate".

Over Moussaoui On August 17, agents in Minneapolis sent a detailed memo to FBI headquarters describing Moussaoui and his roommate Hussein al-Attas.

Jack Shannon, his wily roommate, had spent their nights at barrelhouse piano saloons on the South Side, listening to musicians with names like Pine Top Smith, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Speckled Red, and Cow Cow Davenport pound the keys on their uprights.

In October, the cycles of close friends and roommates started an average of 8.

Commander Pel Florens, whose ship left orbit in the morning for a long, dry patrol of the Mageworlds border zone, had already accounted for most of a bottle of prewar Infabede red while listening to his onetime Academy roommate Jervas Gil.

Hali Omani came to be his roommate and his stolidity had a calming effect.

He looked at his roommates in turn -- Zippo, who seemed to have shut himself down to a dormant state.

Willie Atkins, decried with a look at Ty, who had been dubbed Montana by his mostly southern roommates.

I called my roommate and asked him to meet me under the birdshit, then I hung up.

The four girls repaired to their sitting room, where for the first time Eliste encountered her compeers from Maids rose and Maids blanche - a gaggle of pretty, noisy, frivolous young Exalteds, doll-perfect in their pastel silks, similar in type to her own Maids mauve roommates.

Her roommates teased her about it at first, and then eventually, they decided she had a secret life.

But one of her roommates made a comment later that night which made her worry.

Between work, her roommates, and her volunteer work, things rolled along smoothly until the spring.

Her roommates thought he was very nice, and wanted to know if he was the guy she spent all her time with.

She had started bicycling, and one of her new roommates was teaching her to play tennis.

A few friends like Marjorie, and her roommates, her job, and the women and kids at St.