rooming house

noun

room·​ing house ˈrü-miŋ- How to pronounce rooming house (audio)
ˈru̇-
: a house where lodgings are provided for rent

Examples of rooming house in a Sentence

After losing his job, he moved to a cheap rooming house.
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The four-story, 250-room building has operated in recent decades as a downmarket rooming house. Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 22 Sep. 2025 The hotel eventually became a rooming house, with a tavern. Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 17 Sep. 2025 The historian Dylan Gottlieb has explained how Hoboken property owners torched hundreds of inhabited tenements and rooming houses to clear space for yuppies’ luxury apartments. Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025 The Fall River fire is the deadliest Massachusetts has seen since 1984, when 15 people died in a Beverly rooming house. Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 14 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for rooming house

Word History

First Known Use

1873, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of rooming house was in 1873

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“Rooming house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rooming%20house. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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rooming house

noun
: a house where rooms are rented to lodgers

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