rooming house

noun

Definition of rooming housenext
as in lodging house

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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 For example, in Milwaukee, the tourist rooming house license can be obtained through the Department of Neighborhood Services. — Quinn Clark, jsonline.com, 25 Dec. 2025 Police said a woman was stabbed multiple times inside a rooming house on the 5500 block of West Girard Avenue in West Philly on Sunday. — Tom Ignudo, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026 Officers responded to the report of an altercation involving numerous people at a rooming house in the 350 block of Park Avenue just after midnight on Tuesday, according to Det. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 9 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for rooming house
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rooming house
  1. lodging house
  2. B and B
  3. hotel
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
Definition of lodging house
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  • 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
Definition of B and B
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  • Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford and his wife, Kelly, were spotted leaving their hotel en route to the celebration, while Fox Sports personalities Erin Andrews and Charissa Thompson were also seen arriving for the event.
    — Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026
  • Everyone from Ed Sheeran to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell were spotted, as were several Kansas City Chiefs players, many of whom were captured loading into blacked out sprinter vans from a swanky hotel that media and some fans staked out.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 4 July 2026
Definition of hotel

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