rooming house

American  

noun

1. a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.

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rooming house British  

noun

1. a house having self-contained furnished rooms or flats for renting

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Etymology

Origin of rooming house

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95

Example Sentences

On a February day the next year, Galindo, part of a four-man raiding squad, went to a Figueroa Street rooming house to arrest Davis again.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2023

Georgia Kemp, a cook at the Elks Club, invited him to move into her rooming house at 20th Avenue and East Madison.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2023

Johnson said he helped Arias-Lopez move several times, most recently a few years ago into a rooming house off Georgia Avenue where another man who attended the church also lived.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

In a seedy rooming house apartment, as one man rehearses his three-card monte spiel — “watch me close, watch me close now” — Abraham Lincoln arrives with Chinese takeout.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2022

At five o'clock Otis Amber skipped out of the rooming house, hopped on his bicycle, and returned to Sunset Towers empty- handed.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin