Meaning

2 senses

  1. A person who rents a room.

    Near-synonyms: boarder, tenant

    She took in two roomers to make ends meet.

  2. (in compounds)A residence having the specified number of rooms.

    one-roomer

    four-roomer

More definitions
  • a tenant in someone's house

Origin

From room + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 2).

From room + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 2).

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Forms

plural: roomers
Singularroomer
Pluralroomers

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
boardertenant
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words
RelatedroommateB2rooming houseroom

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
roomA1roombaroommateB2roomyroost

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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