apartmentmate

== English == === Etymology === From apartment + -mate. === Noun === apartmentmate (plural apartmentmates) (rare) Someone who shares an apartment. 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 ====