chummery

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The building in which unmarried British army officers were quartered during the British…

   The building in which unmarried British army officers were quartered during the British Raj.

2. 2

   The shared home of a group of men who are unmarried or working at a distance from their…

   The shared home of a group of men who are unmarried or working at a distance from their families.

   • Dicky could not afford living in the chummery, modest as it was. He had to explain this before he moved to a single room next the office where he worked all day.
   • His first six months in Burma he had spent in Rangoon, where he was supposed to be learning the office side of his business. He had lived in a "chummery" with four other youths who devoted their entire energies to debauchery.

The neighborhood