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Plural of boarder

regular plural

The plural of boarder is boarders.

Forms of boarder

Singularboarder /ˈbɔədə/
Pluralboarders
Countablecountable

Boarders in a sentence

  • The student body consisted primarily of boarders, except for a few children belonging to the school staff.
  • What station or train staff has the specific duty of repelling would-be boarders?1956 April, K. H. Rudolph, “Fun with "Bradshaw"”, in Railway Magazine, page 253
  • The boarders hide their lust to go home.From the entry lust
  • The school fees are higher for boarders than for nonboarders.From the entry nonboarder
  • 'I hate to think what the young hard-core boarders would do to a homosexual rider,' said Nick.2011, H. Thorpe, Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice, Springer, →ISBN, page 183. From the entry fratriarchy

Meaning of boarder

  1. noun A pupil who lives at school during term time.
  2. noun Someone who pays for meals and lodging in a house rather than a hotel.
  3. noun One who boards a vehicle.

Full definition of boarder

Questions about the plural of boarder

What is the plural of boarder?
The plural of boarder is boarders.
Is boarder countable?
Boarder is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boarder (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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