as in hotel
a building where people pay to live and have daily meals
a onetime boardinghouse that is now the site of the town's historical museum
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Recent Examples of boardinghouse
At the boardinghouse, proprietress Fräulein Schneider and her Jewish tenant, Herr Schultz, who owns a fruit store, begin a serious romance with plans to marry.
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Oline Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024
Blackpool, sweeping the planks of his mother’s boardinghouse while listening to a staticky radio broadcast.
—Chloe Schama, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024
After resorting to desperate measures by burning down a boardinghouse and stealing money and a palomino horse, Tom and Polly set out for San Francisco.
—Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post, 7 July 2024
Others managed to scramble onto the roof of an adjacent boardinghouse.
—Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
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Oline Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2024
Blackpool, sweeping the planks of his mother’s boardinghouse while listening to a staticky radio broadcast.
—Chloe Schama, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024
After resorting to desperate measures by burning down a boardinghouse and stealing money and a palomino horse, Tom and Polly set out for San Francisco.
—Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post, 7 July 2024
Others managed to scramble onto the roof of an adjacent boardinghouse.
—Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boardinghouse
Noun
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Wellness programs aren't confined to luxury hotels.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
15 June 2025
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The brands under its umbrella span from ultra-luxe to funky bargain boutique hotels.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
14 June 2025
Noun
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Among those are William Morales, a bomb maker for a militant Puerto Rican group that bombed a New York tavern in 1975, killing four, and Joanne Chesimard, known in Cuba as Assata Shakur, convicted for killing a New Jersey state trooper in 1973.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
13 May 2025
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Shells from the tavern in the basement of Gladstone’s Land, a tenement house in the Scottish capital, filled in gaps in the building’s brickwork.—
Garritt C. Van Dyk,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 May 2025
Noun
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As the warmth of the motel room started to thaw me, my hands and face started to tingle.—
Mike Rayder,
Hartford Courant,
5 June 2025
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Healey has pledged to close all hotels and motels serving as shelters by the end of the year.—
Chris Van Buskirk,
Boston Herald,
30 May 2025
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Only one passenger survived after the plane crashed onto a medical college hostel during lunch hour, with local media reporting as many as 24 people on the ground were also killed.—
Sudipto Ganguly,
USA Today,
14 June 2025
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The plane hit a building hosting a medical college hostel and burst into flames, killing several students, in the city that is the capital of Gujarat, Modi’s home state.—
Shonal Ganguly,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2025
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“Boardinghouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boardinghouse. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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