: a person who lives in the same house with another
Examples of housemate in a Sentence
In college, she lived in a house off campus with five housemates.
The TV belongs to my housemate.
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Eventually, though, the two women became friends, then housemates.—B. Pietras
june 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025 At the series’ start, housemates Samir (Malik Ellasal), Billie (Lucy Freyer), Issa (Amita Rao) and Anton (Owen Thiele) all live together in Samir’s childhood home, a single-family residence deep in Queens.—Alison Herman, Variety, 28 May 2025 Other characters include outcasts, visionaries and eccentrics — all of whom live on the margins as unseen — a former priest, a girl trapped in working her family’s candy stand, a woman who learned preaching from her brother and is a caretaker for her dying housemate.—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 18 May 2025 The study found cats were three times more likely to threaten dog housemates than vice versa.—Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for housemate
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