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roomer

roomer noun: a person who rents a room.

Noun

roomer (plural roomers)

  1. A person who rents a room.
    • Near-synonyms: boarder, tenant
    • She took in two roomers to make ends meet.
    Synonyms:
    boarder, tenant
  2. (in-compounds) A residence having the specified number of rooms.
    • one-roomer
    • four-roomer

Adverb

roomer (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) At a greater distance; farther off.
    • The Captaine in a Shippe of warre, is a iollie fellowe, and thinketh himselfe a lyttle God, because hee speaketh prowdlie to the Souldiors, and maketh them quayle at the shaking of his lockes: […] If any be vnrulie, hee casteth him ouerboorde, or if any be fearefull, hee bindes him to the Maste: if...1581, Richard Madox, A Learned and a Godly Sermon, to be read of all men, but especially for all marryners, captaynes and passengers, which trauell the seas, London
    • Yet did the master by all meanes assay,
      To steare out roomer, or to keepe aloofe,
      Or at the least to strike sailes if they may,
      As in such danger was for their behoofe.1607, John Harington (translator), Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto, London: John Norton and Simon Waterson, Book 41, stanza 17, p. 343

Examples of roomer in a sentence

  • It had probably been left behind by one of the roomers with whom we shared our house.1987 December 20, Joseph Beam, “Not A Bad Legacy, Brother”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 23, page 8:
  • Rents were to be $60 a month for a two-room flat, $90 for a three-roomer and $120 for a four-roomer.2009, Peter H. L. Lim, Chronicle of Singapore, 1959-2009: Fifty Years of Headline News, page 59:

Synonyms of roomer

Forms of roomer

pluralroomers

Origin of roomer

From room + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 2).

Questions about roomer

What does roomer mean?
Roomer means a person who rents a room.
How do you use roomer in a sentence?
It had probably been left behind by one of the roomers with whom we shared our house.
What part of speech is roomer?
Roomer can be a noun or an adverb.
What is the plural of roomer?
The plural of roomer is roomers.

Words near roomer in the dictionary

  1. roomba
  2. roombas
  3. roome
  4. roomed
  5. roomed in
  6. roomer
  7. roomers
  8. roomes
  9. roomette
  10. roomettes
  11. roomf

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