rooming
USROOM-ing/ˈɹumɪŋ/UKRUUM-ing/ˈɹʊmɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of room.
She spent her first year of college rooming with two graduate students.
Rooming next to the kitchen meant constant noise late into the night.
Note
The -ing form carries both uses of the verb room. Most often it is intransitive and means living somewhere as a boarder or tenant, with with naming the housemate: rooming with a cousin. Less often it is transitive and means allocating a room to someone, as when a hotel is rooming its guests. As a participle it forms the progressive after be (they are rooming together); as a gerund it can stand as a subject.
rooming is a form of room
room, verb: To live somewhere, especially as a boarder or tenant. Full entry
- Spelling
- room → rooming: add -ing
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