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.
Recent Examples on the Web By day’s end, Payne was at Oswald’s rooming house talking to neighbors, peeling off layers of the man’s life. Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2024 Ransom favored existing rooming house buildings for hospital use. Carol Roark, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Feb. 2024 Before that, in Times Square, there were just rooming houses. Karrie Jacobs, Curbed, 12 Oct. 2023 The city has a limited number of rooming houses, or single-room occupancy units, and the laws regulating these buildings are different. Jill Terreri Ramos, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023 On Wednesday morning, troopers from the Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section flew to the island and joined police detectives in conducting surveillance near a rooming house in Oak Bluffs, where Covington was living. Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023 The 1861 home had been a rooming house, its rooms divided around a winding stair. Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Oct. 2023 The elegant house was quickly converted into a rooming house with about a dozen furnished rooms, and in the 1940s, the five-story structure was re-faced in stately pale stone, and the original stoop was replaced with a dignified columned portico entrance on the ground level. Mark David, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2023 Others at Price’s rooming house last night described him as an itinerant worker who took all sorts of odd jobs before going on relief. Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1873, in the meaning defined above

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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 19 Mar. 2024.

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rooming house

noun
: a house where rooms are rented to lodgers

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