housemate

noun

house·​mate ˈhau̇s-ˌmāt How to pronounce housemate (audio)
: 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

Word History

First Known Use

1593, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of housemate was in 1593

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“Housemate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housemate. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.

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housemate

noun
house·​mate -ˌsmāt How to pronounce housemate (audio)
: a person who lives with another in the same house

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