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boardinghouse

or board·ing house

[ bawr-ding-hous, bohr- ]

noun

plural boardinghouses
  1. a house at which board or board and lodging may be obtained for payment.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of boardinghouse1

First recorded in 1720–30
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Example Sentences

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Years later, she expressed regret about the way she had depicted a Black character who lives at the boardinghouse with the protagonist.

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Two more of Washington’s “people”—a groom named Giles and a coach driver named Paris—stayed nearby in a boardinghouse.

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Activities at recreational camps and boardinghouses were limited by the presence of wildfires in parts of the country, and the industry still hasn’t fully recovered after the declines recorded in May and June.

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Soon there was hardly room in his moldering Cotswolds mansion for his second wife, Elizabeth, who eventually moved to a boardinghouse in Torquay, an English working-class seaside resort.

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In the chaos in the streets outside Ford’s Theatre, one or more sources reported that John Wilkes Booth and John Surratt were close friends, and that Mrs. Surratt’s boardinghouse was just a few blocks away.

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