boarding house
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Noun
[edit]boarding house (plural boarding houses)
- A private house in which paying residents are provided with accommodation and meals.
- 1959 April, B. Perren, “The Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 191:
- Yet Clacton, like every other station at a big seaside resort, is bedevilled by the traditional insistence of boarding-house landladies that their clients must arrive on Saturday before lunch and leave on Saturday after breakfast.
- A boarding school building where boarders live during term time.
Synonyms
[edit]- (one or both senses): digs (UK), guesthouse, pension,lodging house, rooming house (US)
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[edit]private house for paying guests
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boarding school building
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