Meanings
nounrooming house (plural rooming houses)
plural rooming houses
- A house which rents out furnished apartments.
From there, the scene shifted to the old Victorian rooming house at 710 Ashbury Street
2004, Martin Torgoff, “Everybody Must Get Stoned”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 145 - A house which rents out rooms and may also supply board for an added price: synonym of boarding house.
Synonyms & antonyms
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Translations
Finnish vuokratalo, asuntola
- vuokratalohouse that rents furnished apartments
- asuntolahouse with inexpensive apartments
French maison de chambreurs
- maison de chambreurshouse with inexpensive apartments
German Fremdenheim, Wohnheim
- Fremdenheimhouse that rents furnished apartments
- Wohnheimhouse that rents furnished apartments
- Mikroappartementhaushouse with inexpensive apartments
- Zellenhaushouse with inexpensive apartments
Latin hospitium
- hospitiumhouse that rents furnished apartments
Polish pensjonat, pensjonat
- pensjonathouse that rents furnished apartments
- pensjonathouse with inexpensive apartments
Russian меблиро́ванные ко́мнаты
- меблиро́ванные ко́мнаты (mebliróvannyje kómnaty)house that rents furnished apartments
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APA
rooming house. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rooming%20house
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“rooming house.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rooming%20house. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rooming house,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rooming%20house.
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