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boarding houses

boarding houses is the plural of boarding house.

Meaning of boarding house

Noun

boarding house (plural boarding houses)

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

Questions about boarding houses

What is boarding houses the plural of?
Boarding houses is the plural of boarding house.

Words near boarding houses in the dictionary

  1. boarding cards
  2. boarding craft
  3. boarding gate
  4. boarding gates
  5. boarding house
  6. boarding houses
  7. boarding out
  8. boarding parties
  9. boarding party
  10. boarding pass
  11. boarding passes

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