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housemate

/ˈhaʊsˌmeɪt/

housemate noun: someone living in the same house.

Noun

housemate (plural housemates)

  1. Someone living in the same house.
    • ‘“Housemate”,’ he repeated, disdainfully. ‘What does this word imply?’
      ‘That we are two unpartnered people, sharing the cost of the rent on a house, and are not romantically involved.’2024, Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time, Sceptre, page 12
    Synonyms:
    flatmate, roommate

housemate meaning in Hindi and Bengali

housemate in Hindi

someone living in the same house
सहवासी sahvāsī

housemate in Bengali

একই বাড়িতে বসবাসকারী ব্যক্তি

Examples of housemate in a sentence

  • My housemate was very annoyed to find my friends padded out on the lounge room floor this morning.
  • When we were looking for a new housemate, we put the nice woman on the "maybe" pile, and the annoying guy on the "no" pile.
  • Many of the housemates had Jewish ancestry, but in lieu of Shabbos prayers they had invented their own secular rituals.

All 10 example sentences with housemate

Synonyms of housemate

Forms of housemate

pluralhousemates

Plural of housemate: housemates

Origin of housemate

From house + -mate.

Questions about housemate

What does housemate mean?
Housemate means someone living in the same house.
What is housemate in Hindi?
Housemate in Hindi is सहवासी (sahvāsī). See Housemate meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is housemate?
Housemate is a noun.
How do you pronounce housemate?
Housemate is pronounced /ˈhaʊsˌmeɪt/ (US).
What is the plural of housemate?
The plural of housemate is housemates.

Words near housemate in the dictionary

  1. housemartins
  2. housemaster
  3. housemasters
  4. housemastership
  5. housemasterships
  6. housemate
  7. housemates
  8. housemen
  9. houseminder
  10. houseminders
  11. housemistress

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Adapted from Wiktionary: housemate (page history and authors); housemate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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