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boardinghouse

boardinghouse is the alternative spelling 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.

Forms of boardinghouse

pluralboardinghouses

Words formed from boardinghouse

Phrases with boardinghouse

Questions about boardinghouse

What is boardinghouse the alternative spelling of?
Boardinghouse is the alternative spelling of boarding house.

Words near boardinghouse in the dictionary

  1. boarding-house
  2. boarding-houses
  3. boarding-master
  4. boarding-masters
  5. boarding-school
  6. boardinghouse
  7. boardinghouse reach
  8. boardinghouse reaches
  9. boardinghouses
  10. boardings
  11. boardless

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