Definition of Day boarder

1. Noun. A schoolchild at a boarding school who has meals at school but sleeps at home.

Specialized synonyms: Dayboy, Daygirl
Generic synonyms: Pupil, School-age Child, Schoolchild

Lexicographical Neighbors of Day Boarder

day-trade
day-trader
day-trading
day-tripper
day-trippers
day after
day after day
day after tomorrow
day and age
day and night
day bed
day beds
day before yesterday
day blind
day blindness
day boarder (current term)
day book
day boy
day boys
day by day
day camp
day care
day care center
day care centers
day count convention
day for night
day game
day hospital
day in, day out
day in and day out

Literary usage of Day boarder

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

1. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1875)
"After re - entering the carriage, and giving her directions, our day-boarder once more mounted the box, though unobserved by her, and was conveyed with ..."

2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1885)
"Upon the escape of the day-boarder to college, or to the active work of life, of course he threw off these fetters. With an exulting sense of ..."

3. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1916)
"... he was a guest at the Metropolitan Hotel from the fourth of Januray till the time of his death, a day boarder and had breakfast and dinner; he generally ..."

4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"Then they gave Rock me to Sleep, Mother,—& day- boarder's ditty on his return from Whippingham. Another of their melodious efforts was The Pilgrims Perhaps ..."

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