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

Word History and Origins

Origin of rooming house¹

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95

Example Sentences

After detectives interviewed Boyd in May 2014, he said that he had watched Gibson beat the 24-year-old to death in a rooming house he owned, the affidavit states.

From The Daily Beast

Since the 2016 presidential election, Lateefah Knight, 33, has lived at a Philadelphia shelter, in transitional housing, in an apartment, in a rooming house and with family and friends.

From ProPublica

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg