Associations to the word «Roommate»

Wiktionary

ROOMMATE, noun. A person with whom one shares a room, as at university etc.
ROOMMATE, noun. (US, AU, CA) A person (UK: flatmate, AU: sharemate) sharing the same home (sharehome).

Dictionary definition

ROOMMATE, noun. An associate who shares a room with you.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats