Definition of rooming house
: a house where lodgings are provided for rent
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After losing his job, he moved to a cheap rooming house.
Recent Examples of rooming house from the Web
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Leon Frazier was bleeding profusely from a stab wound when a visitor found him outside the West Park rooming house where Frazier lived, authorities said.
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Across the street, a man raises his rifle in the narrow bathroom of a derelict rooming house and points it at King.
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There Mack and Tessie Stewart Pride were raising Charley and 10 other children, eight boys and three girls, in a three-room house.
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According to the Hungarian edition of Forbes, the Orbán family, which once lived in a one-room house in rural Hungary, now has a net worth of 23 million euros ($28.3 million), most of it earned since 2010.
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The other rooming houses on three other streets, all owned by the same landlord, received minor fire damage.
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Among the unsavory characters who found refuge in 1934 at 334 Riverside, which by then had been renovated into a rooming house, was the book’s title character — Bernard (Bennie the Bum) McMahon.
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Clara first bought the five-room house, including the kitchen and bathroom, for $3,000 in 1994.
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Detectives said the shooting happened a little after 7 a.m. inside a rooming house in Eatonville, Florida.
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First Known Use of rooming house
1873
ROOMING HOUSE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of rooming house for English Language Learners
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: a house where rooms with furniture are rented to people to live in
ROOMING HOUSE Defined for Kids
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Definition of rooming house for Students
: a house having furnished rooms for rent to lodgers
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