English
Etymology
From room + -mate.
Pronunciation
Noun
roommate (plural roommates)
- A person with whom one shares a room, as in a dormitory, barracks, rooming house, or apartment.
- (US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Canada) A person sharing the same home albeit not the same room (but generally not a family member or spouse).
- Synonym: (Australia) sharemate
- Hyponyms: flatmate, housemate
2016, “Learning English (public domain)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], archived from the original on 18 September 2017:I live with Marsha. We’re roommates.
- (LGBTQ slang, humorous, ironic) A same-sex significant other with whom one lives; a coinhabitant in a non-heterosexual relationship.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Japanese: ルームメイト (rūmumeito)
- → Japanese: ルームメート (rūmumēto)
- → Korean: 룸메이트 (rummeiteu)
Translations
a person with whom one shares a room
- Arabic: رَفِيق السَّكَن m (rafīq as-sakan)
- Armenian: սենյակակից (hy) (senyakakicʻ)
- Bulgarian: съквартирант m (sǎkvartirant)
- Catalan: company d'habitació m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 室友 (zh) (shìyǒu), 同屋 (zh) (tóngwū)
- Czech: spolubydlící m
- Dutch: kamergenoot (nl) m
- Esperanto: samĉambro
- Estonian: toakaaslane (et), toanaaber (et)
- Finnish: huonetoveri, huonekaveri
- French: camarade de chambre m or f, (dormitory) camarade de chambrée m or f, copiaule (fr) m, cothurne (fr)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Mitbewohner (de) m, Mitbewohnerin (de) f, Zimmergenosse (de) m, Zimmergenossin (de) f, Zimmerkollege (de) m, Zimmerkollegin (de) f
- Greek: συγκάτοικος (el) m or f (sygkátoikos)
- Hebrew: שׁוּתָּף (he) m (shutáf), שׁוּתָּפָה f (shutafá), שׁוּתָּפִים m pl (shutafím), שׁוּתָּפוֹת (shutafót)
- Hindi: सहवासी (hi) m (sahvāsī)
- Hungarian: szobatárs (hu)
- Ido: kunvivanto (io)
- Irish: comrádaí seomra m
- Italian: compagno di stanza m, coinquilina f
- Japanese: 同居人 (ja) (どうきょにん, dōkyonin), ルームメイト (ja) (rūmumēto); (informal) 部屋っ子 (へやっこ, heyakko)
- Korean: 동숙인 (dongsugin), 룸메이트 (ko) (rummeiteu)
- Latvian: istabas biedrs, istabas biedrs m, istabas biedrene f
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: ци́мер m (címer), ци́мерка f (címerka)
- Norwegian: romkamerat m
- Pannonian Rusyn: цимер m (cimer), цимерка f (cimerka)
- Persian: هماتاقی (ham-otâqi)
- Polish: współlokator (pl) m, współlokatorka f
- Portuguese: companheiro de quarto, colega de quarto
- Russian: сосе́д по ко́мнате m (soséd po kómnate), сосе́дка по ко́мнате f (sosédka po kómnate), сожилец m (sožilec), сожилица f (sožilica)
- Spanish: compañero de cuarto m
- Swedish: rumskamrat (sv) c
- Thai: เพื่อนร่วมห้อง (pʉ̂ʉan-rûuam-hɔ̂ng)
- Turkish: oda arkadaşı
- Urdu: ہم کمرہ (ham kamra), ہم اطاق (ham utāq)
- Vietnamese: bạn cùng phòng
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US: with whom one shares an apartment or house
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 室友 (zh) (shìyǒu), 同屋 (zh) (tóngwū)
- Dutch: huisgenoot (nl) m
- Esperanto: kunloĝanto
- Finnish: asuintoveri; kämppäkaveri (fi) (informal)
- French: colocataire (fr) m or f, (familiar) coloc (fr) m or f
- Greek: συγκάτοικος (el) m or f (sygkátoikos)
- Hebrew: בֶּן בַּיִת (he) m (ben báyit)
- Hindi: सहवासी (hi) m (sahvāsī)
- Hungarian: lakótárs (hu)
- Italian: coinquilino (it) m
- Japanese: 同居人 (ja) (どうきょにん, dōkyonin), ルームメイト (ja) (rūmumēto), ハウスメイト (hausumēto); (informal) 部屋っ子 (heyakko)
- Macedonian: ци́мер m (címer), ци́мерка f (címerka)
- Polish: współlokator (pl) m, współlokatorka f
- Portuguese: colocatário m, coabitante m
- Russian: сосе́д по кварти́ре/до́му m (soséd po kvartíre/dómu) сосе́дка по кварти́ре/до́му f (sosédka po kvartíre/dómu) (apartment/house)
- Serbo-Croatian: ци̏мер m
- Swedish: inneboende (sv) c, samboende c, sambo (sv) c
- Tibetan: ཤག་རོགས (shag rogs)
- Turkish: ev arkadaşı
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