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A roomer is a person who pays rent to live in a room in someone else’s house, while the owner still lives there too. You get a bedroom; you may share the kitchen or bathroom; you are not family, and you do not own the place. Though actually, this is mainly an American word, and it already sounds a little old. Many people now say lodger (especially in British English) or just tenant. A roommate is a different picture: roommates share a place as equals, often both paying a landlord. A roomer pays the person who owns the house and still sleeps under the same roof. You still meet roomer on some official forms and in older writing.
寄宿房客（付房租住在屋主家裡的人；美式，偏舊）
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
roomernoun
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A person who rents a room.
- Near-synonyms: boarder, tenant
- She took in two roomers to make ends meet.
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A residence having the specified number of rooms.
- one-roomer
- four-roomer
roomeradv
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obsoleteAt a greater distance; farther off.
- The Captaine in a Shippe of warre, is a iollie fellowe, and thinketh himselfe a lyttle God, because hee speaketh prowdlie to the Souldiors, and maketh them quayle at the shaking of his lockes: […] If any be vnrulie, hee casteth him ouerboorde, or if any be fearefull, hee bindes him to the Maste: if hée crie aloofe, the Helmes man dares not goe roomer: and if hée bidde shoote, the gunner dares not but giue fyre.
- 1607, John Harington (translator), Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto, London: John Norton and Simon Waterson, Book 41, stanza 17, p. 343, Yet did the master by all meanes assay, To steare out roomer, or to keepe aloofe, Or at the least to strike sailes if they may, As in such danger was for their behoofe.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。