boardinghouse

Or board·ing house

[bawr-ding-hous, bohr-]

noun

plural

boardinghouses 

1. a house at which board or board and lodging may be obtained for payment.

Word History and Origins

Origin of boardinghouse¹

First recorded in 1720–30

Example Sentences

Tourists jammed hotels and boardinghouses, but they were not the only newcomers.

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Years later, she expressed regret about the way she had depicted a Black character who lives at the boardinghouse with the protagonist.

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Two more of Washington’s “people”—a groom named Giles and a coach driver named Paris—stayed nearby in a boardinghouse.

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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.

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Soon there was hardly room in his moldering Cotswolds mansion for his second wife, Elizabeth, who eventually moved to a boardinghouse in Torquay, an English working-class seaside resort.

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