Definition of Boarding house

1. Noun. A private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests.

Exact synonyms: Boardinghouse
Specialized synonyms: Bed And Breakfast, Bed-and-breakfast
Generic synonyms: House

Definition of Boarding house

1. Noun. A private house in which paying residents are provided with accomodation and meals. ¹

2. Noun. A boarding school building where boarders live during term time. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Boarding House

board rule
board shorts
board up
boardable
boarded
boarded up
boarder
boardercross
boarders
boardgame
boardgames
boardie
boardies
boarding
boarding card
boarding house
boarding houses
boarding parties
boarding party
boarding school
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boardinghouse
boardinghouse reach
boardinghouses
boardings
boardless
boardlike
boardman

Literary usage of Boarding house

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"So, in that island A MODEL BOARDING-HOUSE. you get your board and washing free of charge—and if nature had gone further and furnished a nice American hotel ..."

2. Views of Society and Manners in America: In a Series of Letters from that by Frances Wright (1821)
"MY DEAR FRIEND, WE have removed from our former residence, to a more private boarding-house at the head of Broad-way ; a gay street that you will remember, ..."

3. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1867)
"He dislikes and disbelieves in the boarding-house, and, ... If it is argued that the want of honor for the boarding-house in our Saxon tongue comes simply ..."

4. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Eugene Allen Gilmore (1910)
"seven] ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS (c) BOARDING-HOUSE RULES Handbook to Lowell (1848), p. 45, 46. REGULATIONS FOR THE BOARDING-HOUSES of the Hamilton ..."

5. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1890)
"He further remarked: "A boarding house is as well known and as ... 344, 347, in passing upon the question whether a person residing in a boarding house, ..."

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