Definition of rooming house
: a house where lodgings are provided for rent
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Examples of rooming house in a Sentence
After losing his job, he moved to a cheap rooming house.
Recent Examples of rooming house from the Web
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For instance, a man who allegedly shot and killed another man at a northwest Atlanta rooming house was captured last Tuesday by the U.S. Marshals Southern Regional Task Force.
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Her daily earnings from selling porridge, equivalent to 50 cents, are barely enough to buy food for her family, or pay rent on their one-room house.
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The end came about 10:30 yesterday morning at St. Alphonsus Hospital, where he was taken Monday, after being found near to death in the rear of a rooming house on Idaho Street.
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Police are looking for two people who opened fire on a northwest Atlanta rooming house late Monday and killed one of the residents.
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After the 2010 earthquake, Jean Ronald Cherisier was fortunate to take ownership of a one-room house with a concrete floor, wooden walls and a metal roof.
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The family shared a small one-room house, with the yaks and other animals sleeping downstairs.
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Another Phud, Loren Cobb, had moved to a rooming house on Eddy Street with eight others, six of them Phuds.
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Deputies arrested Granger, 53, who lived at a rooming house at 5134 SW 18th St. in West Park, on Tuesday afternoon.
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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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