boardinghouse
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4.8
- noun
- /ˈbɔrdɪŋˌhaʊs/
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pensión
- Listen, keep your eyes open for a clean boardinghouse.
- boardinghouse room
- live in a boardinghouse
- a cheap boardinghouse
Examples
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A woman's work is never done in a boardinghouse, I'm sure.
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I am new to housekeeping; I have been used to hotels and boardinghouses all my life.
Fiction book (1994) -
We were at the same boardinghouse together in New York.
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This is a boardinghouse, not a charity.
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Nice little boardinghouse you have here.
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By the time Song Lee reached the boardinghouse, she was hot and thirsty.
Fiction book (2000) -
Is this Mrs. Cook's boardinghouse?
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How curious to grow up in a busy boardinghouse with no father, and your own mother the innkeeper.
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I stopped at the boardinghouse and at the warehouse, but he's not there.
Fiction book (1990) -
After moving to the city for work, I found a cozy boardinghouse that provided meals with every stay.
Synonyms
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2.1
A cheap place for travelers or students to sleep, often with shared rooms and facilities
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2.5
A small building near a house where visitors stay
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2.7
A house where people pay to stay and get meals
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3.7
A house where people rent single rooms and share bathrooms or a kitchen
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3.6
A house that rents rooms to people for short or long stays
Temporary rooms you rent to stay in for a short time
A building that offers rooms for people to stay for a short time
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Boardinghouse combines board, which once meant a 'table' and later came to mean 'meals', and house, meaning 'home'. So a boardinghouse is a house where people pay for a room and meals.