Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person with whom one shares a room or rooms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who shares a room with another or others.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of two or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
person with whom one shares aroom , as atuniversity etc. - noun US A
person with whom one shares anapartment orhouse (UK:flatmate orhousemate ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an associate who shares a room with you
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Examples
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For a sample roommate agreement and other forms, visit TenantResourceCenter. org and click on "Forms" or go to RoommateClick. com/roommate_ helpful_documents. htm
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Casemods, you have a great idea there my roommate is a programmer, i should get him onto that mod
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This concerns me, because if my roommate is caught with marijuana in the room I can get in trouble as well.
Ask Amy washingtonpost.com 2010
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I hope that if my roommate is out there somewhere and remembers our African layover, she knows in her heart that so-called "good hair" isn't all it's cracked up to be!
Helen Davey: Tales of Pan Am: Playing Beauty Shop Helen Davey 2010
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His roommate is a recoverng stroke victim who's been trying since June to get in good enough shape to go home.
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So while what Tyler's roommate is alleged to have done was stupid and cruel, we should not direct our anger only at the person or people who apparently put the video of Tyler online.
Gareth Higgins: Tyler Clementi's Death: We're All Part of the Problem Gareth Higgins 2010
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Balki Bartkomous from Perfect Strangers: Balki was a rambunctious but lovable roommate from the far off land of Mypos.
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So while what Tyler's roommate is alleged to have done was stupid and cruel, we should not direct our anger only at the person or people who apparently put the video of Tyler online.
Gareth Higgins: Tyler Clementi's Death: We're All Part of the Problem Gareth Higgins 2010
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I laughed so long that I went AFK in WoW, and my roommate is confused as heck
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Guess what zoo I’ll be avoiding this year? 2009
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So while what Tyler's roommate is alleged to have done was stupid and cruel, we should not direct our anger only at the person or people who apparently put the video of Tyler online.
Gareth Higgins: Tyler Clementi's Death: We're All Part of the Problem Gareth Higgins 2010
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