My roommate is prodigal when it comes to spending money on movies; he buys them the day they're released, regardless of price.
Source: tatoeba (1959)
Roommate
//ˈɹu(m)ˌmeɪt//
Synonyms for "roommate" (75 found)
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Closest matches (15)
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Related words (37)
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7 entriesTranslations
93 translations across 37 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- رَفِيق السَّكَن noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Armenian
1 entries- սենյակակից noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Bulgarian
1 entries- съквартирант noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Catalan
1 entries- company d'habitació noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 同屋 noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- 同屋 noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
- 室友 noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- 室友 noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
Czech
1 entries- spolubydlící noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Dutch
2 entries- huisgenoot noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
- kamergenoot noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Esperanto
2 entries- kunloĝanto noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
- samĉambro noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Estonian
2 entries- toakaaslane noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- toanaaber noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Finnish
4 entries- asuintoveri noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
- huonekaveri noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- huonetoveri noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- kämppäkaveri noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
French
4 entries- camarade de chambre noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- camarade de chambrée noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- coloc noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
- colocataire noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
German
4 entries- Mitbewohner noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- Mitbewohnerin noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- Zimmergenosse noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- Zimmergenossin noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Greek
2 entries- συγκάτοικος noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- συγκάτοικος noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
Hebrew
4 entries- בֶּן בַּיִת noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
- שׁוּתָּף noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- שׁוּתָּפִים noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- שׁוּתָּפָה noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Hindi
2 entries- सहवासी noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- सहवासी noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
Hungarian
2 entries- lakótárs noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
- szobatárs noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Ido
1 entries- kunvivanto noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Irish
1 entries- comrádaí seomra noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Italian
4 entries- coinquilina noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- coinquilino noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- coinquilino noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
- compagno di stanza noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Japanese
4 entries- ハウスメイト noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
- ルームメイト noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- ルームメイト noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
- 同居人 noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Korean
2 entries- 동숙인 noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- 룸메이트 noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Latvian
3 entries- istabas biedrene noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- istabas biedrs noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- istabas biedrs noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Macedonian
4 entries- ци́мер noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- ци́мер noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
- ци́мерка noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- ци́мерка noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
Norwegian
1 entries- romkamerat noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Pannonian Rusyn
2 entries- цимер noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- цимерка noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Persian
1 entries- هماتاقی noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Polish
4 entries- współlokator noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- współlokator noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
- współlokatorka noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- współlokatorka noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
Portuguese
4 entries- coabitante noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
- colega de quarto noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- colocatário noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
- companheiro de quarto noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Russian
4 entries- сожилец noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- сожилица noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- сосе́д по ко́мнате noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- сосе́дка по ко́мнате noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- ци̏мер noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
Spanish
1 entries- compañero de cuarto noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Swedish
4 entries- inneboende noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
- rumskamrat noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- sambo noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
- samboende noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
Thai
1 entries- เพื่อนร่วมห้อง noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཤག་རོགས noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
Turkish
2 entries- ev arkadaşı noun (US: with whom one shares an apartment or house)
- oda arkadaşı noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Urdu
2 entries- ہم اطاق noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
- ہم کمرہ noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Vietnamese
1 entries- bạn cùng phòng noun (a person with whom one shares a room)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Has my roommate been decided?
Source: tatoeba (29555)
My roommate is too talkative.
Source: tatoeba (29557)
I'm Paul, your roommate.
Source: tatoeba (472773)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.