下げ宿しゅく人にん

noun

lodger; roomer; boarder

A person who rents a room in someone's house, often with meals included. Slightly old-fashioned; 下宿 itself is less common nowadays.

• 彼かれは学がく生せい時じ代だい、下げ宿しゅく人にんとしておばあさんの家いえに住すんでいた。

  When he was a student, he lived as a lodger in an old lady's house.