: 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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Big Brother went from America voting out the houseguests to the housemates voting out their own with weekly competitions to have ultimate power as Head of Household.—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 5 July 2025 Hall said she was only allowed to call her mom once a week using a housemate's phone.—Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025 These beautiful housemates must sleep around, vote each other out and win challenges for luxury rewards as well as communal necessities (see: a front door).—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 1 July 2025 Akasha’s housemate, on the other hand, spent around 30 minutes in the room with the interrogators.—Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 22 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for housemate
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