boardinghouse
Americannoun
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boardinghouses
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of boardinghouse
First recorded in 1720–30
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Then Miller enlisted investment help from his friend, railroad magnate Henry Huntington, transformed the boardinghouse into a hotel and renamed it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Another is Marie-Christine Lippman, whose family foundation runs a boardinghouse on land owned by Sothea’s family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
Years later, she expressed regret about the way she had depicted a Black character who lives at the boardinghouse with the protagonist.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
Meanwhile, she took odd jobs, working as a maid at a boardinghouse, an office clerk, a stock clerk, a secretary in the state grain office and an assistant in a lawyer’s office.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2023
The private eyes learned that the marriage had been orchestrated by Minnie Savage—a “shrewd, immoral, capable woman,” as one investigator put it, who ran a boardinghouse in Pawhuska.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
Young farm women lived in boardinghouses, working 12-14 hour days for cash wages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
Activities at recreational camps and boardinghouses were limited by the presence of wildfires in parts of the country, and the industry still hasn’t fully recovered after the declines recorded in May and June.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2023
He sleeps in boardinghouses and sometimes rough, in the local cemetery.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2020
Her inexhaustible kindness drew customers to her boardinghouses, restaurant and after-hours club, but it was her indomitable strength and discipline that allowed her businesses to flourish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
Others were big two-story duplexes, built as boardinghouses for bachelor miners in the booming 1920’s and later sectioned off as individual family dwellings during the Depression.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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