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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Her housemate quickly shushed her, saying she wasn't supposed to tell.
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Her housemate quickly shushed her, saying she wasn’t supposed to tell.
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Some favorites from the first film are back — some only briefly — such as housemate Leslie Uggams, girlfriend Morena Baccarin and cab driver Karan Soni.
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Crab cakes are another signature item that serve double duty as one of Howley’s favorite breakfast dishes, in the form of crab cake Benedict with housemate hollandaise of course.
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All the items stolen belong to Gronk’s housemates, though.
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But as her housemate points out, these letters are very much their own kind of bomb, and end up doing a lot more damage than Ofglen’s literal explosion a few episodes back.
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His housemate, the bass player Paul Raven of the bands Killing Joke, Prong and Ministry, explained that Mr. Davies was a numerologist and might be more agreeable if the digits added up to 10.
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Also on Rauner’s desk is a proposal to give judges discretion to temporarily suspend the gun rights of someone who displays violent warning signs if family members, housemates or police seek court intervention.
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First Known Use of housemate
1593
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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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