"housemate" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-housemate.wav [US], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-housemate.wav [US] Forms: housemates [plural]
Etymology: From house + -mate. Etymology templates: {{af|en|house|-mate}} house + -mate Head templates: {{en-noun}} housemate (plural housemates)
  1. Someone living in the same house. Categories (topical): Household, People Synonyms: flatmate, roommate Translations (someone living in the same house): съквартирант (sǎkvartirant) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 室友 (shìyǒu) (Chinese Mandarin), 同屋 (tóngwū) (Chinese Mandarin), huisgenoot [masculine] (Dutch), asuintoveri (Finnish), kämppäkaveri [informal] (Finnish), Mitbewohner [masculine] (German), Mitbewohnerin [feminine] (German), páirtí tí [masculine] (Irish), comrádaí tí [masculine] (Irish), coinquilino [masculine] (Italian), coinquilina [feminine] (Italian), 同居人 (dōkyo-nin) (Japanese), ルームメイト (rūmumēto) (Japanese), 部屋っ子 (heyakko) [informal] (Japanese), ハウスメイト (hausumēto) (Japanese), сосе́д по до́му (soséd po dómu) [masculine] (Russian), сосе́дка по до́му (sosédka po dómu) [feminine] (Russian)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "someone living in the same house",
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      "sense": "someone living in the same house",
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      "sense": "someone living in the same house",
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      "sense": "someone living in the same house",
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "someone living in the same house",
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "someone living in the same house",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "someone living in the same house",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Mitbewohnerin"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "someone living in the same house",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "páirtí tí"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "someone living in the same house",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "comrádaí tí"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "someone living in the same house",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "coinquilino"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "someone living in the same house",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "coinquilina"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "dōkyo-nin",
      "sense": "someone living in the same house",
      "word": "同居人"
    },
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      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "rūmumēto",
      "sense": "someone living in the same house",
      "word": "ルームメイト"
    },
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      "sense": "someone living in the same house",
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      "word": "部屋っ子"
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      "sense": "someone living in the same house",
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "soséd po dómu",
      "sense": "someone living in the same house",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "someone living in the same house",
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      "word": "сосе́дка по до́му"
    }
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}

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