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• half board
  half board

  noun

  demi-pension.
• half-board
  half-board

  noun

  a manoeuvre by a sailing ship enabling it to gain distance to windward by luffing up into the wind

half board

American  

noun

half boards plural

1. demi-pension.

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half board ¹ British  

noun

1. Also called: demi-pension. 

   1. the daily provision by a hotel of bed, breakfast, and one main meal

   2. ( as modifier )

      half-board accommodation

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half-board ² British  

noun

1. a manoeuvre by a sailing ship enabling it to gain distance to windward by luffing up into the wind

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• half boards
  plural

Etymology

Origin of half board

First recorded in 1970–75

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Half board in private room for two about $84 per person, per night; half board in shared room about $78 per person, per night.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022

Half board in shared room about $75 per person, per night; half board in private room about $80 per person, per night; children under 12 about $64 per person, per night.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022

After a couple early shots, Nicklas Backstrom carried the puck at the half board, inching toward the faceoff circle as Marcus Johansson loomed low.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2014

Tarantini describes his business as half urban boutique, half board shop.

From Time Magazine Archive

I waited on table at a $4 boarding-house all of my sophomore year, and earned half board, retaining my old room at $1 per week.

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett

Inntravel has a seven-night, self-guided trip from Grindelwald to Kandersteg, taking in the pretty town of Murren, from £1,595 per person, including half-board in three- and four-star hotels and rail travel from London.

From National Geographic ● Apr. 18, 2023

Families can get good-value deals in places such as Hotel Marinella, handy for the beach, with half-board in a spacious quad room €220 a night for four in July.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2018

In quest of such a place, I set off in late May to travel beyond the universe of half-board arrangements and karaoke nights.

From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2013

As the Capitals hung their heads, Johnson celebrated by Tebowing along the half-board wall.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2012

“If it had not been for that half-board that we involuntarily made, we should never have done it.”

From A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy by Hodgson, Edward S.