Definition of housemate
:a person who lives in the same house with another
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Examples of housemate in a Sentence
In college, she lived in a house off campus with five housemates.
The TV belongs to my housemate.
Recent Examples of housemate from the Web
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Housemates: QB/WR/DB Kris Kelley (Sr.) RB/LB Jaheim Sutton (Jr.) OL/DL Martin Alacron (Sr.)
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Having a housemate to share expenses and experiences with might be the perfect gray-hair having, no makeup wearing, non-romance busting solution for you.
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A police officer told her and her housemates to leave around 4 p.m. PT, roughly three hours after power went out.
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Mr. Dawkins started banging on the doors of the rooms where Mr. Bowman’s housemates were sleeping.
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Convicted last year of misdemeanor assault, Caril was arrested a week before Pimentel’s death on another misdemeanor for allegedly assaulting his housemate and was released from jail the following day, charging papers say.
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Ellen's housemates in her recovery program represent a range of body types.
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One of her housemates gives her a tranquillizer and puts her to bed.
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Patrick McDonald, a housemate on Logo’s reality series based in the popular gay summer destination sure hopes so.
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First Known Use of housemate
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HOUSEMATE Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of housemate for English Language Learners
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: a person who lives in the same house with another person but is not a part of that person's family
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