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

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

From BBC

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.

From BBC

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 ….”

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

It was a roustabout settlement with three stores, a blacksmithy, a boarding house, a half-dozen saloons, gambling hells and dance halls.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• apartment 
• cabin 
• condo 
• condominium 
• cottage 
• dormitory 
• dwelling 
• farm 
• hospital 
• house 
• hut 
• mansion 
• palace 
• place 
• residence 
• resort 
• shelter 
• trailer