Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

rooming house

NOUN
house renting out rooms
Synonyms


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

I visited Richey at the 30-unit rooming house where she pays $925 a month for a bed in a tiny shared unit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024

Johnson said he helped Arias-Lopez move several times, most recently a few years ago into a rooming house off Georgia Avenue where another man who attended the church also lived.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023

While living in a rooming house on Manhattan’s East 67th Street, he met a blond public school teacher named Marion Raymond who was finishing her master’s thesis.

From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2022

Neither was he taken into custody in Milwaukee, where he lived in a rooming house on the city’s South Side.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022

Joe gave the same alibi Rose did: on the night of May 21, 1921, they had been together in Pawnee, seventeen miles southwest of Gray Horse, and had stopped at a rooming house.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann


Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Join 14,000,000 vocabulary learners

Start learning new words today on VocabTrainer.
You'll remember them forever.

Start training