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Definition of Day boarder
1. Noun. A schoolchild at a boarding school who has meals at school but sleeps at home.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Day Boarder
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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