apartmentmate

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noun

Someone who shares an apartment.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounapartmentmate (plural apartmentmates)

plural apartmentmates

  1. rareSomeone who shares an apartment.

    If you wish to choose your apartmentmates, you must do so when submitting your Housing Application […]

    2002, NYU School of Law Department of Residence Services, 2002-2003 Lottery Application and Instructions
    2 more examples

    Althea reports that her white apartmentmate immediately left her company, whoem she was entertaining in another section of the apartment, took out the garbage, brought up the vacuum cleaner and began [...].

    1972, Charles Vert Willie, Arline Sakuma McCord, Black Students at White Colleges, Praeger, page 32

    My apartmentmate at the old Rice Institute was the first woman ever to be graduated there with a mechanical engineering degree […]

    1991 Spring, Catharine Savage Brosnan, "On husbandry", Sewanee Review, vol. 99 issue 2, page 248

Origin

  1. Englishapartment
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  4. Proto-Germanic*ga-
  5. Proto-Germanic*matiz
  6. Proto-Germanic*matjô
  7. Proto-West Germanic*gamatjô
  8. Old Saxongimato
  9. Middle Low Germanmate
  10. Middle Englishmate
  11. Englishmate
  12. Englishapartmentmate

From apartment + -mate.

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APA

apartmentmate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/apartmentmate

MLA

“apartmentmate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/apartmentmate. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “apartmentmate,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/apartmentmate.

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