rooming house

Definition of rooming housenext

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Recent Examples of rooming house By the middle of the 20th century, the handsome brownstone had been chopped up into a rooming house, and in the early 1980s, it was reconfigured with one apartment on each of its five floors. Mark David, Robb Report, 3 Dec. 2025 Once at the scene of the crime, Schapiro made his way across the street to a rooming house from where he was told the gunman had shot King. Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 17 Nov. 2025 His parents ran a luncheonette and rooming house near factories whose immigrant workers came in to eat. David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025 The four-story, 250-room building has operated in recent decades as a downmarket rooming house. Jc Reindl, Freep.com, 22 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rooming house
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Noun
  • The backyard of the lodging house on Hanbury Street, where Annie Chapman died, had three possible exits through neighboring yards; there were five at Mitre Square, where forty-six-year-old Catherine Eddowes bled out in a dark corner.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Research trips took them to local lodging houses, private family homes, and vintage Deco hotels including Bombay’s Bentley’s Hotel and Sea Green Hotel on Marine Drive.
    Nicole Trilivas, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • If one were to use that fundamental mathematical principle — often referenced as if A=B and B=C then A=C — entering Thursday’s Class 4A state football quarterfinal, things did not look promising for Hill-Murray but did for Kasson-Mantorville.
    Mike Cook, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Part of the Curio Collection by Hilton, the hotel was created as a love letter to the monarch butterfly's typical migration through the city.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The district is funded mostly by a 5% tax on hotel stays.
    Mark Dee April 1, Idaho Statesman, 1 Apr. 2026

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“Rooming house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rooming%20house. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.

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