Definitions for roommates
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1. roommates

   A roommate is a person with whom one shares a living facility such as a room or dormitory except when being family or romantically involved. Similar terms include dormmate, suitemate, housemate, or flatmate ("flat": the usual term in British English for an apartment). Flatmate is the term most commonly used in New Zealand, when referring to the rental of an unshared room within any type of dwelling. Another similar term is sharemate (shared living spaces are often called sharehouses in Australia and other Commonwealth countries). A sharehome is a model of household in which a group of usually unrelated people reside together. The term generally applies to people living together in rental properties rather than in properties in which any resident is an owner occupier. In the UK, the term "roommate" means a person living in the same bedroom, whereas in the United States and Canada, "roommate" and "housemate" are used interchangeably regardless whether a bedroom is shared, although it is common in US universities that having a roommate implies sharing a room together. This article uses the term "roommate" in the US sense of a person one shares a residence with who is not a relative or significant other. The informal term for roommate is roomie, which is commonly used by university students. The most common reason for sharing housing is to reduce the cost of housing. In many rental markets, the monthly rent for a two- or three-bedroom apartment is proportionately less per bedroom than the rent for a one-bedroom apartment (in other words, a three-bedroom flat costs more than a one-bedroom, but not three times as much). By pooling their monthly housing money, a group of people can achieve a lower housing expense at the cost of less privacy. Other motivations are to gain better amenities than those available in single-person housing, to share the work of maintaining a household, and to have the companionship of other people. People become roommates when they move into a rental property, with one or more of them having applied to rent the property through a real estate agent, being accepted and having signed a lease.

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1. Roommates

   Roommates is a 1995 American comedy-drama film, starring Peter Falk, D. B. Sweeney and Julianne Moore, directed by Peter Yates. The original music score was composed by Elmer Bernstein. The film was marketed with the tagline "Some people talk. Some people listen. When you're 107 and going strong, you do whatever you want."

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How to pronounce roommates?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of roommates in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of roommates in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of roommates in a Sentence

1. Mohammed Helal:

   When I watch the PEGIDA protests I am simply scared, but I live with German roommates who think completely differently and are anti-PEGIDA.

2. Brian Kropp:

   There is a group that wants to go into the workplace, they don't have a place to work, or they have roommates -- they don't have the physical setup and infrastructure to work from home.

3. Kurt Schleicher:

   I guess you could say I’m getting to know my roommates, they left this earth in a stressful way, they were murdered while they slept, and their time was cut short, so I understand where they’re coming from.

4. Stefany Sweadner:

   We were roommates in college and everything, so we hope that the girls are as close as we are.

5. Pete Davidson:

   I'm going on a little 'vacation,' the kind of vacation where insurance pays for some of it, and they take your phone and shoelaces. And you have roommates, but it still costs like $100,000.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roommates
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=roommates