Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who rents a room or rooms in which to live; a lodger.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who hires a room; a lodger.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete At a greater distance; farther off.
- noun colloq. A lodger.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
rents a room. - adverb obsolete At a greater distance; farther off.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tenant in someone's house
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Examples
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I said this just as a plan to make some money, thinking a roomer could be a good thing and the we seem to get along well when working on the trike together.
I Was Born2Cree8 in BC Canada 2010
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I said this just as a plan to make some money, thinking a roomer could be a good thing and the we seem to get along well when working on the trike together.
I Was Born2Cree8 in BC Canada 2010
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I think, on the whole, I prefer to be a 'roomer' and 'eat out.'
The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day Robert Neilson Stephens 1886
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Now, if something romantic is going to happen it could really confuse the 'roomer' issue.
I Was Born2Cree8 in BC Canada 2010
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Now, if something romantic is going to happen it could really confuse the 'roomer' issue.
I Was Born2Cree8 in BC Canada 2010
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California, for example, also allows landlords who rent to no more than one roomer to advertise for a lodger of a specific sex, and it provides that certain owners who are renting to a "roomer" or "boarder" are exempt from the rest of the prohibitions against discrimination in housing.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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So I assume the company put out the roomer about the big “change” wirth the intent of creating a run on ketchup sending profits sky high.
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Maybe F&S should start a F&S Snitch program to track down those who do not meet their standards or speak complete fact, and spread roomer or satire.
Misdirection 2009
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When she was 7 years old, she said the 50 year old roomer in her house sexually molested her.
Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008
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I thotted dat wuz jess roomer bowt dem sub-lemming-lol pitchers onna cammel…
Element of Surprise Kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
qroqqa commented on the word roomer
n. (N.Am.) lodger, tenant
They took in sewing and washing and ironing, and there was always a roomer in the front room upstairs, but they often found it hard to scrape together ten dollars on the first of the month to pay Mr Lisle, a landlord out of Horatio Alger, who collected his rents in person, and on foot.
—James Thurber, 1952, 'Daguerreotype of a Lady', in The Thurber Album
first OED quotation 1871: Roomer, a word used by landladies to designate a lodger or occupant of a room who takes his meals elsewhere.
July 10, 2008