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flophouses

noun

plural of flophouse
as in rooms

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  1. rooms
  2. boardinghouses
  3. barracks
  4. billets
  5. penthouses
  6. tenements
  7. mansions
  8. apartments
Noun
  • The hotel lists accessible facilities and has lifts, but its collection of interconnected historic buildings creates changes in level, and some rooms contain internal stairs.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2026
  • There are just two other separate rooms in the A-frame Bunkhouse.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of rooms
Noun
  • By the eve of World War I, Opatija boasted 24 hotels, 36 boardinghouses, and 12 sanatoriums attended by 80 physicians.
    — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2026
  • Behind Jovan, the posse breaks into boardinghouses, yanks a miner from behind a grocery counter, shoots another dead in his home.
    — Masha Hamilton, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2026
Definition of boardinghouses
Noun
  • Another strike targeted a barracks for Iran’s 388th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, which operates tanks and armored vehicles, in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iranian state television reported.
    — Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 15 July 2026
  • The explosions were blamed on the negligent handling of dynamite in a barracks close to residential areas.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026
Definition of barracks
Noun
  • The first billets have been shipped to SGL facilities in the US for machining.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of billets
Noun
  • The residence began as two separate penthouses, but in the mid-1990s they were combined into one home in a project commissioned by investor businessman Billy Getty, according to Christie’s International Real Estate.
    — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Wealthy Americans living in luxe California mansions and New York penthouses are now snatching up historic homes abroad.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of penthouses
Noun
  • Jet fuel burns as hot as kerosene — twice as hot as wood — and firefighters battle kerosene fires every day in the basements of tenements all over the city.
    — Peter Wilkinson, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
  • No one wants to go back to the days of tenements and apartments with insufficient ventilation or light.
    — Michael Schill, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
Definition of tenements
Noun
  • From the street, there doesn’t seem to be anything too special about 281 Greene Avenue, in Clinton Hill, especially compared with the stately, stand-alone 19th-century mansions a few blocks west.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Barack Obama is excluded from this, despite owning multiple mansions, including a beautiful Martha's Vineyard estate.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of mansions
Noun
  • Supporters contend that change-resistant property owners in the Land of Steady Habits are simply trying to ignore the statewide shortage of new housing that isn’t McMansions or high-amenity, high-rent luxury apartments.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The company had planned about 400 apartments, including more than 130 at below market-rate rents.
    — Savannah Sicurella, AJC.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of apartments
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