rooming house

English

Noun

rooming house (plural rooming houses)

1. A house which lets out furnished apartments.
   • 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:

     From there, the scene shifted to the old Victorian rooming house at 710 Ashbury Street

2. A building with small, basic, inexpensive apartments for rent, often without en-suite bathrooms.
3. A house which lets out rooms and may also supply board for an added price: synonym of boarding house.

Related terms

• housemate
• room and board
• roommate

 

Translations

house that rents furnished apartments

• Chinese:

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• Finnish: vuokratalo
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• German: Fremdenheim n (obsolescent), Wohnheim (de) n
• Latin: hospitium n
• Russian: меблиро́ванные ко́мнаты (ru) pl (mebliróvannyje kómnaty)

house with inexpensive apartments

• Chinese:

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• Finnish: asuntola (fi)
• French: maison de chambreurs f
• German: Mikroappartementhaus n, Zellenhaus n (obsolete)
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