boarding house
Americannoun
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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The play takes place almost entirely within a boarding house in Pittsburgh in 1911.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
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
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 • Mar. 29, 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
When they got into Tyler, it turned out that the man lived at a boarding house just down the street from Lewis’s lady friend.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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