boarding house

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

Example Sentences

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.

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It was once a bustling community with Japanese boarding houses that offered affordable rent and home-cooked meals.

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The slogan is a spin on a well-known discriminatory phrase found outside some UK boarding houses from the 1950s.

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Recognising Nigeria's deeply religious society, Charterhouse also permits parents to take their children home from the boarding house for Sunday church services, with the expectation that they return by Monday morning.

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When this postcard was made, probably in the early 1950s, Deodar House had become a hotel/boarding house with “appointments and comforts of your own home in a magnificent five-acre setting ….”

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