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apartmentmate en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English apartment Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Germanic *ga- Proto-Germanic *matiz Proto-Germanic *matjô Proto-West Germanic *gamatjôder. Old Saxon gimatoder. Middle Low German matebor. Middle English mate English mate English -mate English apartmentmate From apartment + -mate.

Meanings

1. (rare) Someone 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:
   • 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

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