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roomer

noun

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from *(H)rewH-✻ — “to root; to rip, tear”
  2. inherited from *rūmą✻ — “room”
  3. inherited from *rūm✻ — “room”
  4. inherited from rūm — “room, space”
  5. inherited from roum — “room, space”
  6. suffixed as roomer — “room + er”

Definitions

  1. A person who rents a room.

    • Near-synonyms: boarder, tenant
    • She took in two roomers to make ends meet.
    • Many years ago, while rummaging through cartons in our basement, I found a tattered, coverless copy of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. It had probably been left behind by one of the roomers with whom we shared our house.

  2. A residence having the specified number of rooms.

    • one-roomer
    • four-roomer
    • Rents were to be $60 a month for a two-room flat, $90 for a three-roomer and $120 for a four-roomer.

  3. At a greater distance

    At a greater distance; farther off.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA