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View synonyms for rooming house

rooming house

noun

  1. a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.


rooming house

noun

  1. a house having self-contained furnished rooms or flats for renting
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of rooming house1

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95
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Example Sentences

When I returned to the rooming house in the late afternoon, I found a handwritten note pinned to the front door.

From a second-story window of a rooming house covered with red brick-patterned tarpaper comes the sound of a blues harmonica.

Robinson signed on for $63.25 a month and moved into a rooming house.

He ran all the way back to Lucy's house, threw down the key he had got from her, and then went to his own rooming-house.

He had been going to report to Webber when he had run into that golden field in the rooming-house hallway.

She swayed back from his close glance and ran up the first three steps of her rooming-house.

At Lulu's rooming-house they lingered again, talking in subdued tones on the brownstone stoop.

At that time he was living in one room (rear) of a shabby rooming house in Thirty-ninth Street.

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