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English
Etymology
From apartment + -mate.
Noun
apartmentmate (plural apartmentmates)
- (rare) Someone who shares an apartment.
1972, Charles Vert Willie, Arline Sakuma McCord, Black Students at White Colleges, Praeger, page 32:Althea reports that her white apartmentmate immediately left her company, whoem she was entertaining in another section of the apartment, took out the garbage, brought up the vacuum cleaner and began [...].
- 1991 Spring, Catharine Savage Brosnan, "On husbandry", Sewanee Review, vol. 99 issue 2, page 248:
- My apartmentmate at the old Rice Institute was the first woman ever to be graduated there with a mechanical engineering degree
Usage notes
In the UK, the usual term is flatmate; in the US, it is roommate (whether they share a bedroom or not).
Translations
one who shares an apartment
(US) — see roommateone who shares an apartment
(UK) — see flatmate