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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Patrick McDonald, a housemate on Logo’s reality series based in the popular gay summer destination sure hopes so.
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Use rewards to motivate kids or reluctant housemates!
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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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