rooming house en · NOUN
Meanings
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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 building with small, basic, inexpensive apartments for rent, often without en suite bathrooms.
- A house which rents out rooms and may also supply board for an added price: synonym of boarding house.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| rooming houses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
room and board · housemate · roommate
Translations (11)
fi asuntola (house with inexpensive apartments) · pl pensjonat (house with inexpensive apartments) · de Fremdenheim (house that rents furnished apartments) · de Wohnheim (house that rents furnished apartments) · fr maison de chambreurs (house with inexpensive apartments) · ru меблиро́ванные ко́мнаты (house that rents furnished apartments) · de Zellenhaus (house with inexpensive apartments) · la hospitium (house that rents furnished apartments) · fi vuokratalo (house that rents furnished apartments) · pl pensjonat (house that rents furnished apartments) · de Mikroappartementhaus (house with inexpensive apartments)