housemate

noun

Definition of housematenext
as in roommate

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Recent Examples of housemate What differentiates misophonia from simply wanting to snatch that bag of chips away from your crunching housemate? — Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 9 June 2026 That’s a significant requirement that limits attacks to neighbors, housemates, or people in offices that are adjacent to the speaker. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 5 June 2026 The chairperson of Queens Community Board 9, Sherry Algredo, traveled to Lakhwinder’s home to offer her condolences for his housemate’s death. — Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 8 May 2026 Phillip Ortega, the housemate, was severed from the case against Winter’s parents after initially being grouped with them in charges; his partner was dropped from the murder case following a preliminary hearing in the summer of 2024. — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 8 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for housemate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for housemate
  1. roommate
  2. classmate
  3. playmate
  4. teammate
  5. schoolmate
  6. shipmate
  7. colleague
  8. coworker
Noun
  • The filing also defends a witness-tampering charge involving Robinson's roommate and an allegation that Robinson committed a violent offense in the presence of a child.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Her roommate, 83-year-old Valerie Yockey, is her grandmother.
    — Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of roommate
Noun
  • Brock Wisne, for example, graduated with his classmates from the University of Northern Colorado in May and signed with a Spanish professional basketball team over the summer.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Elliott Cribby, the pitching coach who gave Skubal a scholarship to Seattle University, was a groomsman in Cole’s wedding and a grad-school classmate.
    — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of classmate
Noun
  • For kids, anger often shows up when something doesn’t go their way—like when a playmate grabs their toy.
    — Jenna Autuori-Dedic, Parents, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The former model was the Playboy Playmate was the 2004 playmate of the year.
    — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 10 July 2026
Definition of playmate
Noun
  • Engdahl, along with his teammate Brayden Rogers from Huntsville, Alabama, were killed.
    — Marissa Sulek, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • During a joint practice last summer in Houston, Moehrig decked Texans wide receiver Xavier Hutchinson on a hard but clean hit that angered a few of Hutchinson’s teammates.
    — Joseph Person, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of teammate
Noun
  • The dramatic recipe involves equal parts literary ambition, risk-taking, and chutzpah, with a dash of substance abuse, cooked on the high heat of adolescent lust that brings Tony to Provincetown in pursuit of a schoolmate named Nancy (Emilia Jones).
    — Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Her schoolmate, Curtis Mehlberg, follows her, and both are able to enter that magical world.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 29 June 2026
Definition of schoolmate
Noun
  • At one point, shipmate Dave Faulkner screamed as he was thrown to the bottom deck.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
  • Other dives have been conducted to inter the remains of Arizona survivors who wanted to rest eternally with their former shipmates.
    — Jim Mustian, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
Definition of shipmate
Noun
  • But the allegations involving his treatment of women led some of his GOP colleagues to at one point consider possibly expelling him from the House.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Ornelas and some of her colleagues have recently created the Health and Power Organizing Project, a coalition of academics and advocates to provide a counterweight to political headwinds.
    — Anil Oza, STAT, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of colleague
Noun
  • Rather than over-scheduling people to maintain up-to-date global assets, a company can transfer much of this workload to its Smartcat AI coworkers.
    — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026
  • This coworker got three clear answers and kept looking for another route while staying vague about their plans.
    — Kristin Stoller, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of coworker

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“Housemate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/housemate. Accessed 26 Aug. 2026.

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