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Wiktionary

  1. n. alternative spelling of boarding house.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests

Examples

  • “He tries to phone Suryeon, but the nearest phone to the boardinghouse is at the Wu house and Jongsuk is intercepting the calls.”

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  • “Sometimes he called the boardinghouse and asked Mrs. O’Toole if he could speak with Theodora.”

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  • “Impossible, also, to imagine him calling the boardinghouse again and again until finally Mrs. O’Toole said, “Listen, sugar.”

    Middlesex

  • “She goes to a boardinghouse, which is run by an Irish landlady.”

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  • “The bedroom at the top of the boardinghouse was a loft with two windows that looked up to the sky.”

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  • “The boardinghouse will be the fourth door on your left.”

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  • “Though I had returned to college and was again living next door on East Lawn, I was not now a regular guest at her table as I had been previously; yet I cannot recall the boardinghouse where I got my meals.”

    In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.

  • “I found a cheap room in a kind of boardinghouse and stayed the night.”

    Middlesex

  • “There were four such flats in each building, and each of the four was a "boardinghouse" for the occupancy of foreigners -- Lithuanians, Poles, Slovaks, or”

    The Jungle

  • “There were four such flats in each building, and each of the four was a "boardinghouse" for the occupancy of foreigners -- Lithuanians, Poles, Slovaks, or Bohemians.”

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