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rooming

rooming is the present participle and gerund of room.

Meaning of room

Verb

room (third-person singular simple present rooms, present participle rooming, simple past and past participle roomed)

  1. (intransitive) To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.
    • Doctor Watson roomed with Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street.
  2. (transitive) To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.
    • […] convinced (with no scientific evidence) that they would contract the dread disease by breathing the same air in which the patient was roomed, by touching the patient or even by changing the sheets of a patient's bed.1988, Arthur Frederick Ide, AIDS hysteria, page 12

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Words formed from rooming

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Words that rhyme with rooming

Questions about rooming

What is rooming the present participle and gerund of?
Rooming is the present participle and gerund of room.

Words near rooming in the dictionary

  1. roomier
  2. roomies
  3. roomiest
  4. roomily
  5. roominess
  6. rooming
  7. rooming house
  8. rooming houses
  9. rooming in
  10. rooming-in
  11. roomkeeper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rooming (page history and authors); room (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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