boarding house
boarding house noun: a private house in which paying residents are provided with accommodation and meals.
Noun
boarding house (plural boarding houses)
- A private house in which paying residents are provided with accommodation and meals.
- Yet Clacton, like every other station at a big seaside resort, is bedevilled by the traditional insistence of boarding-house landladies that their clients must arrive on Saturday before lunch and leave on Saturday after breakfast.1959 April, B. Perren, “The Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 191
- A boarding school building where boarders live during term time.
- Synonyms:
- digs, guesthouse, pension, lodging house, rooming house
boarding house meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Kannada
boarding house in Hindi
- boarding school building
- छात्रालय chātrālay
boarding house in Tamil
- உணவகம்
boarding house in Marathi
- a boarding house
- खाणावळ khāṇāvaḷ
boarding house in Kannada
- ಊಟದ ಮನೆ, ಭೋಜನಾಲಯ, ಖಾನಾವಳಿ
More languagesFewer languages
- boarding house in Thai
- หอพัก hɔ̌ɔ-pák
- boarding house in Vietnamese
- nhà nghỉ, nhà trọ
Synonyms of boarding house
Forms of boarding house
| plural | boarding houses |
|---|---|
| alternative form | boarding-house |
| alternative form | boardinghouse |
Questions about boarding house
- What does boarding house mean?
- Boarding house means a private house in which paying residents are provided with accommodation and meals.
- What is boarding house in Hindi?
- Boarding house in Hindi is छात्रालय (chātrālay). See Boarding house meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is boarding house?
- Boarding house is a noun.
- What is the plural of boarding house?
- The plural of boarding house is boarding houses.
Words near boarding house in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: boarding house (page history and authors); boarding house (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); खाणावळ (Marathi) (page history and authors); boarding house (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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