lodger

/ˈlɑdʒər/

/ˈlɒdʒə/

Other forms: lodgers

A lodger is a person who rents a room in someone's house. If you rent out a room in your house, guess what? You'll have a lodger living with you.

As opposed to a renter, who rents an entire apartment or house, a lodger generally leases only a bedroom, sharing the use of the kitchen and bathroom with the house's other inhabitants. You could also call a lodger a "roomer" or a "boarder." Lodger comes from lodge, "small house," from the Old French loge, "hut or cabin."

Definitions of lodger

1. noun

   a tenant in someone’s house who typically receives meals from the owner as part of the arrangement
   synonyms: boarder, roomer

   type of:

   renter, tenant

   someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else