1LIVE WITH somebodysomeone who you share a room with, especially at college 〔尤指大学里的〕室友
one of my college roommates
我大学里的一个室友
2.American EnglishAmELIVE WITH somebody someone you share an apartment or house with 同住一套公寓[一幢房子]的人SYN British English flatmate
Examples from the Corpus
roommate• They became roommates, not lovers.• I ran into my old college roommatetoday.• I shared a taxicab with the Stephens College student and her roommate, who had come to meet her at the airport.• He and his co-Web site founders, who are also his roommates, will graduate in May.• CharityChin, my roommate, is sitting on the floordrinking Chablis out of a plastic wineglass.• I came out to my roommate.• I had just moved in late December, fleeing a nightmareroommate situation in the Village.• We were roommates back in Chicago.