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rooming houses

rooming houses is the plural of rooming house.

Meaning of rooming house

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.

Questions about rooming houses

What is rooming houses the plural of?
Rooming houses is the plural of rooming house.

Words near rooming houses in the dictionary

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

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