apartmentmate
nounEtymology From apartment + -mate.
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Rare Someone who shares an apartment.
- 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 [...].1972, Charles Vert Willie, Arline Sakuma McCord, Black Students at White Colleges, Praeger, page 32:
- My apartmentmate at the old Rice Institute was the first woman ever to be graduated there with a mechanical engineering degree […]1991 Spring, Catharine Savage Brosnan, "On husbandry", Sewanee Review, vol. 99 issue 2, page 248
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- If you wish to choose your apartmentmates, you must do so when submitting your Housing Application […]2002, NYU School of Law Department of Residence Services, 2002-2003 Lottery Application and Instructions: