flatmate

chiefly British

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Recent Examples of flatmate This viral moment suggests that, for many, the right flatmate might just be the perfect stand-in family member. Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 July 2025 At least one of her flatmates can't be bothered to learn her actual name. Richard Edwards, Space.com, 13 Apr. 2025 In January of this year, Italy’s highest-ranking court affirmed a slander finding against Knox for accusing an innocent man, Patrick Lumumba, of murdering her flatmate. Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 6 Apr. 2025 But when Allie decides to give her ex-fiance a second chance and jilts her new flatmate, Hedra’s demure demeanor begins to shift and increasingly sour. Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flatmate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flatmate
roommate
Noun
  • The millennial co-founded Facebook with his Harvard roommate, Mark Zuckerberg, and went on to become the company’s first CTO before leaving to found Asana, a project management platform, in 2008.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Later, Mignini served as the prosecutor in the Amanda Knox case, in which Knox was accused of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in 2007, and later acquitted.
    Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Flatmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flatmate. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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