Usually means: Shared residence with private bedrooms.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word rooming house:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. rooming house: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rooming house: Merriam-Webster
  3. rooming house: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rooming house: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rooming house: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rooming house: Vocabulary.com
  7. rooming-house: Wordnik
  8. rooming house: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rooming house: Wiktionary
  10. rooming house: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rooming house: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. rooming house: Dictionary.com
  13. Rooming house: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. rooming house: Rhymezone
  15. rooming house: FreeDictionary.org
  16. rooming house: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. rooming house: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rooming house: Encyclopedia

(Note: See rooming_houses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (rooming house)

noun:  A house which lets out furnished apartments.
noun:  A building with small, basic, inexpensive apartments for rent, often without en-suite bathrooms.
noun:  A house which lets out rooms and may also supply board for an added price: synonym of boarding house.

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