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housemate
/ ˈhaʊsˌmeɪt /
noun
- a person who is not part of the same family, but with whom one shares a house
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Word History and Origins
Origin of housemate1
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Example Sentences
Recently, my 20-something niece was delighted to share the query by her housemate in D.C.: “Are you related to Amy Siskind?”
The smallest housemate's pouf is about as iconic as her orange skin, though she's decided to retire the former.
Alas, his relationship with housemate Sammi sure broke that one quickly.
Every self-proclaimed guido should know this, according to housemate J-WOWW.
So he went away, vaguely indignant, and his new housemate comforted him, and he came no more.
Old Angus, however, was not so passive an observer of his new and unlooked-for housemate.
Dahlia lived seven years her sister's housemate, nurse of the growing swarm.
Never again would Susanna be just the same to her young housemate that she had been.
The "portfolios" were found, shortly after Emily Dickinson's death, by her sister and only surviving housemate.
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