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rooming house

rooming house noun: a house which rents out furnished apartments.

Noun

rooming house (plural rooming houses)

  1. A house which rents out furnished apartments.
    • From there, the scene shifted to the old Victorian rooming house at 710 Ashbury Street2004, Martin Torgoff, “Everybody Must Get Stoned”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 145
  2. A building with small, basic, inexpensive apartments for rent, often without en suite bathrooms.
  3. A house which rents out rooms and may also supply board for an added price: synonym of boarding house.

Forms of rooming house

pluralrooming houses

Questions about rooming house

What does rooming house mean?
Rooming house means a house which rents out furnished apartments.
What part of speech is rooming house?
Rooming house is a noun.
What is the plural of rooming house?
The plural of rooming house is rooming houses.

Words near rooming house in the dictionary

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

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