boardinghouse
noun
a house at which board or board and lodging may be obtained for payment.
boardinghouses
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pluralof boardinghouse.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Four other former boardinghouses still stand but are no longer occupied by Japanese immigrants, said Mulcahy, who is advocating on behalf of the tenants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2022
He sleeps in boardinghouses and sometimes rough, in the local cemetery.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2020
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
