- a variation of boardinghouse.
boarding house
Americannoun
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boarding houses
plural
noun
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a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
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a house for boarders at a school See also house
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Peter was 14 at the time, old enough to be allowed to spend the day on his own in the seaside town of Barmouth, where his family were staying in a boarding house.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Then Miller enlisted investment help from his friend, railroad magnate Henry Huntington, transformed the boarding house into a hotel and renamed it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
The great playwright’s drama about a Pittsburgh boarding house comes to Broadway in an uneven production starring Taraji P. Henson and Cedric the Entertainer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
“Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” arguably the finest work in August Wilson’s 10-play series chronicling the African American experience in the 20th century, is set in a boarding house in Pittsburgh in 1911.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2025
For on that Saturday a young French sailor rooming at Richard Denny’s boarding house, over on North Water Street, was desperately ill with a fever.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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