housematen.
/ˈhaʊsmeɪt/, U.S. /ˈhaʊsˌmeɪt/ A person who lives in a house or building with another or several others, esp. (in later use) as tenants in a shared house. Also figurative.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [noun] > inhabitant of house > one who shares house or flat
housemate1809–10
house-sharer1829
flat-sharer1959
mingle1974
1593 in J. Strype Brief Ann. Church & State (1731) cv. 165 He is the wealthiest Rebel in that Country..And his House-Mate is that Traitor, the eldest of the Throgmortons.
1596 in T. Stretton Marital Litigation Court of Requests (2008) 131 And in accompanynge them therin thes[e] defendants..her house mat[e]s, wer[e] imprysoned twoe severall tymes and so kepte for many howres.
1689 Quakers Art of Courtship iii. 17 Some sort of Hypocondriack Distemper, much like that which haunts Oliver's Porter, and his Housemates, on the South-side of Moorefields.
1692 E. Heath Full Acct. Earthquake Jamaica 2/1 Mr. Swymer escaped, but his House-mate, Mr. Watts, perished.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 81 He would willingly offer the lieutenant an asylum at Brambleton-hall, if he did not foresee that his singularities..would render him an intolerable house-mate.
1791 J. Learmont Poems Pastoral 172 Till house-mates curse the man put corn-in Strife-breedin' Whisky.
1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1837) III. 325 Knowledge to be gained from books, children, housemates and neighbours.
1847 R. W. Emerson Uses Great Men in Wks. (1906) I. 284 It is observed in old couples, or in persons who have been housemates for a course of years, that they grow alike.
1861 J. R. Lowell E Pluribus Unum in Prose Wks. (1890) V. 74 Peace..is a blessing that will not long be the housemate of cowardice.
1946 Times 28 May 5/6 The Modern Gallery will..serve as a source of supply to its housemate, the National Gallery of British Art, as well as to the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square.
1955 Jet 6 Jan. 48 She left her..husband eight years ago to ‘room’ with her current housemate.
2004 C. Kettlewell Electric Dreams 11 He..was looking forward to shorts and a T-shirt and maybe a cold beer at home, and laughing it over with his new housemate.
Derivatives
ˈhousemating n. the action or condition of living as housemates.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > [noun] > a house > together
housemating1882
house-sharing1920
house-share1979
1882 H. Caine Recoll. D. G. Rossetti 273 Remaining..in the same mind relative to our mutual housemating.
1998 A. Farmer Rich Single Life viii. 128 The purpose for leaving is to join another person with whom you want to spend the rest of your life..This is not about housemating. This is about a union.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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