roommate
US/ˈɹu(m)ˌmeɪt/
roommate noun: a person with whom one shares a room, as in a dormitory, barracks, rooming house, or apartment.
Noun
roommate (plural roommates)
- A person with whom one shares a room, as in a dormitory, barracks, rooming house, or apartment.
- Synonyms:
- chambermate
- A person sharing the same home albeit not the same room (but generally not a family member or spouse).
- I live with Marsha. We’re roommates.2016, “Learning English (public domain)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 18 Sep 2017
- A same-sex significant other with whom one lives; a coinhabitant in a non-heterosexual relationship.
roommate meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada
roommate in Hindi
- a person with whom one shares a room
- सहवासी sahvāsī
- US: with whom one shares an apartment or house
- सहवासी sahvāsī
roommate in Urdu
- a person with whom one shares a room
- ہم کمرہ ham kamra, ہم اطاق ham utāq
roommate in Bengali
- একই ঘরে বাসিন্দা
roommate in Kannada
- ಕೋಣೆ ಸಂಗಾತಿ, ಕೊಠಡಿ ಸಹವಾಸಿ, ಜೊತೆವಾಸಿ, ಒಂದೇ ಕೊಠಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ವಾಸಿಸುವ ಜೊತೆಯವನು
More languagesFewer languages
- roommate in Arabic
- رَفِيق السَّكَن rafīq as-sakan
- roommate in Indonesian
- rekan kamar, teman sekamar, rekan gedung, teman segedung
- roommate in Persian
- هماتاقی ham-otâqi
- roommate in Thai
- เพื่อนร่วมห้อง pʉ̂ʉan-rûuam-hɔ̂ng
- roommate in Vietnamese
- bạn cùng phòng
Examples of roommate in a sentence
- John and I have been friends ever since we were roommates at college.
- We still have one hope left: my roommate might see the note I left on the table.
- The king made a gift of No. 10 to his old Eton roommate.
Synonyms of roommate
Forms of roommate
| plural | roommates |
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Origin of roommate
From room + -mate.
Words formed from roommate
Questions about roommate
- What does roommate mean?
- Roommate means a person with whom one shares a room, as in a dormitory, barracks, rooming house, or apartment.
- What is roommate in Hindi?
- Roommate in Hindi is सहवासी (sahvāsī). See Roommate meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is roommate?
- Roommate is a noun.
- How do you pronounce roommate?
- Roommate is pronounced /ˈɹu(m)ˌmeɪt/ (US).
- What is the plural of roommate?
- The plural of roommate is roommates.
Words near roommate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: roommate (page history and authors); roommate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); roommate (Kannada 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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