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Definition: Roommate |
RoommateNoun1. An associate who shares a room with you. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "roommate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A roommate is a person with whom one shares a room or rooms. Affectionately known as roomie. In most university dormitories, roommates are of the same sex.One of difficult tasks for the house office in college, is matching roommates for freshmen. Some statistics show that the academic grades, study style, social behavior and personality of one roommate will affect the other roommate's academic performance.
Living with a roommate can mean much less privacy than having a room on your own, and for some people this can cause a lot of stress.
In Japan, people rarely live with roommates; perhaps given that most of houses are not designed in a way for strangers to share the house.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Roommate."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Friend | Schoolmate, schoolfellow; classfellow, classman, classmate; roommate; fellow-man, stable companion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Roommate |
| English words defined with "roommate": Chamber fellow. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The prodigal roommate arrives (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) To think that in our little mix you're the good roommate. (As Good As It Gets; writing credit: Mark Andrus) I am your father's son's uncle's newphew's cousin's former roommate. (Spaceballs; writing credit: Mel Brooks and Ronny Graham.) Do you realize in the entire history of western civilization no one has successfully accomplished the Roommate Switch (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) I haven't even met his roommate. What kind of name is Dozer anyway (Days of Our Lives; writing credit: Claude-Marcel Richard) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Roommate (1998) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
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| "Gal on the phone" by Gabino Travassos Commentary: "My old roommate talking to her boyfriend. Excuse the blurriness. And the graininess. And the background clutter." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Roommate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Roommate" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "roommate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shok dhome, bashkëbanor. (various references) | |
Arabic | زميل الحجرة, رفيق في الحجرة, رفيق الحجرة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съквартирант (chum). (various references) | |
Chinese | 室友 . (various references) | |
Czech | spolubydlící. (various references) | |
Farsi | هم اتاق . (various references) | |
French | colocataire, camarade de chambre (room mate). (various references) | |
German | zimmergenosse, Stubenkamerad (room mate). (various references) | |
Greek | σύνοικοσ (chug), σύνοικος, συγκάτοικος (flatmate). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שותף לחדר, חבר לחדר. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szobatárs (chamber fellow, chum, roomie, room-mate). (various references) | |
Italian | compagno di stanza. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ループ線 (air conditioner, fee charged for hotel room, loop line, magnifying glass, room, room cooler, rooming, room-service, Roumania, ruler, rural, treadmill). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ルームメート . (various references) | |
Korean | 동숙자. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oommateray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | companheiro de quarto (chamber fellow). (various references) | |
Romanian | coleg de camerã (chum). (various references) | |
Russian | сосед по комнате, товарищ по комнате (room-mate), квартирант (lodger). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sobni drug (bedfellow), ljubavnik (inamorato, lover, paramour, philanderer, swain). (various references) | |
Spanish | compañero de cuarto. (various references) | |
Swedish | rumskamrat. (various references) | |
Thai | เพื่อนร่วมห้อง (bunkie, chum, room-mate). (various references) | |
Turkish | oda arkadaşı (chum). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | співмешканець (chum, cohabitant). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "roommate": roommates. (additional references) | |
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"Roommate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rommat, roomate, Rotomat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "roommate" (pronounced ruw"mā't) |
| 3 | -m ā' t | amalgamate, acclimate, automate, checkmate, classmate, decimate, dichromate, glutamate, inmate, overestimate, playmate, primate, schoolmate, shipmate, stalemate, teammate, underestimate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-m-o-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: tearoom. | |
-2 letters: marmot, mooter. | |
-3 letters: amort, armet, mater, metro, morae, motor, oater, orate, ramet, romeo, tamer. | |
-4 letters: aero, ammo, atom, mare, mart, mate, meat, memo, meta, moat, mome, moor, moot, mora, more, mort, mote, omer, rate, rato, ream, roam, room, root, rota, rote, roto, tame, tare, taro, team, tear, term, toea, tome, toom, tora. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-m-o-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: roommates. | |
+3 letters: commemorate, commentator. | |
+4 letters: chromonemata, commemorated, commemorates, commemorator, commendatory, commentators, immoderation, memorization, metamorphose, metronomical, normothermia. | |
+5 letters: chromonematic, commemorating, commemoration, commemorative, commemorators, commiseration, immoderations, memorizations, metamorphosed, metamorphoses, metamorphosis, normothermias. | |
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