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apartmentmate

apartmentmate noun: someone who shares an apartment.

Noun

apartmentmate (plural apartmentmates)

  1. (rare) Someone who shares an apartment.
    • Althea reports that her white apartmentmate immediately left her company, whoem she was entertaining in another section of the apartment, took out the garbage, brought up the vacuum cleaner and began [...].1972, Charles Vert Willie, Arline Sakuma McCord, Black Students at White Colleges, Praeger, page 32
    • My apartmentmate at the old Rice Institute was the first woman ever to be graduated there with a mechanical engineering degree […]1991 Spring, Catharine Savage Brosnan, "On husbandry", Sewanee Review, vol. 99 issue 2, page 248

Forms of apartmentmate

pluralapartmentmates

Origin of apartmentmate

From apartment + -mate.

Questions about apartmentmate

What does apartmentmate mean?
Apartmentmate means someone who shares an apartment.
What part of speech is apartmentmate?
Apartmentmate is a noun.
What is the plural of apartmentmate?
The plural of apartmentmate is apartmentmates.

Words near apartmentmate in the dictionary

  1. apartment-sits
  2. apartment-sitting
  3. apartmental
  4. apartmentless
  5. apartmentlike
  6. apartmentmate
  7. apartmentmates
  8. apartments
  9. apartments to let
  10. apartness
  11. apartnesses

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