: one of two or more persons sharing the same room or living quarters
called also roomie
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The Shiz University roommates initially clash before forming a friendship, which is tested at the end of the first movie when the Wizard of Oz (Jeff Goldblum), who secretly plots to silence the talking animals of Oz, comes between them.
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Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
Days later, police pulled his body from Buffalo Bayou — part of the city’s 2,500 miles of waterways — and about a mile and a half upstream from where two roommates last saw him alive, according to his cousin, Lauren Freeman.
—Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Friends, roommates, family and mental health experts testified at trial to Dominguez’s mental decline in the months before the knife attacks.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2025
My freshman-year college roommate brought an entire underbed storage tub full of medieval costumes (multiple petticoats and cloaks).
—Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
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Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
Days later, police pulled his body from Buffalo Bayou — part of the city’s 2,500 miles of waterways — and about a mile and a half upstream from where two roommates last saw him alive, according to his cousin, Lauren Freeman.
—Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Friends, roommates, family and mental health experts testified at trial to Dominguez’s mental decline in the months before the knife attacks.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2025
My freshman-year college roommate brought an entire underbed storage tub full of medieval costumes (multiple petticoats and cloaks).
—Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for roommate
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“Roommate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/roommate. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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roommate
noun
room·mate
ˈrüm-ˌmāt 
ˈru̇m-
: one of two or more persons sharing a room or dwelling
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