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boarding house

American  
[bawr-ding haus, bohr-ding haus] / ˈbɔr dɪŋ ˌhaʊs, ˈboʊr dɪŋ ˌhaʊs /

noun

plural

boarding houses

  1. a house in which a person can rent a room, generally with meals provided.

boarding house British  

noun

  1. a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests

  2. a house for boarders at a school See also house

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Jasmine stays at a Florida boarding house run by Lillian, who calls her new tenant Jazzy and helps her with bus fare to New York City.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

Upstairs from the bar in the boarding house, lost souls confess their secrets to a prairie witch named the Antidote.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2025

They had run a boarding house in Coatesville, but abandoned the business and left town as the scandal garnered national attention, she said.

From Seattle Times • May 20, 2024

His favorite, "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," is set in 1911 in a boarding house in Pittsburgh's Hill District.

From Salon • Oct. 18, 2022

She lived at a boarding house approved for outside work trainees by the Warren State Home, and was permitted out in the evenings to come to the Center.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

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