rooming house

rooming house (plural rooming houses)

1. A house which rents out furnished apartments.
   • 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:

     From there, the scene shifted to the old Victorian rooming house at 710 Ashbury Street

2. A building with small, basic, inexpensive apartments for rent, often without en suite bathrooms.
3. A house which rents out rooms and may also supply board for an added price: synonym of boarding house.