rooming house

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rooming house

noun rooming houses

A house which rents out furnished apartments. From there, the scene shifted to the old Victorian rooming house at 710 Ashbury Street
A building with small, basic, inexpensive apartments for rent, often without en suite bathrooms.
A house which rents out rooms and may also supply board for an added price: synonym of boarding house.

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noun house that rents furnished apartments

Deutsch	Fremdenheim, Wohnheim
Русский	меблиро́ванные ко́мнаты mebliróvannyje kómnaty

noun house with inexpensive apartments

Français	maison de chambreurs
Deutsch	Mikroappartementhaus, Zellenhaus

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@misc{rooming_house_2026,
  title = {rooming house},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rooming%20house},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}