roommate:
(also ‘roomie‘ & ‘roomy‘; plural: ‘roommates‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
‘room’, noun, in this context = a space/place in a large building, usually separated by walls; ‘to room’ = to occupy/stay in a room
a person who shares a room/rooms to live/stay in with another,
happy roommates sharing a room
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It’s important to know that a roommate or housemate in American usage is a flatmate in British usage and there is no ‘apartment mate’ in either usage.
Jake is lucky because two of his classmates are his roommates, and they never give one another any inconvenience at all.
Young college students looking for some cheap accommodation fall prey for some greedy landlords/home owners who let out their rooms for more roomers than the law allows, and each roomer had to share his/her room with more roommates than they are initially informed of.
For an interesting article that gives us some tips on how to be a good roommate, please click here, for a news items that shows us how we come across this word in our daily news, please click here and for a news article about a ‘ghost’ roommate, please click here.
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