Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
boarding house .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests
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Examples
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He tries to phone Suryeon, but the nearest phone to the boardinghouse is at the Wu house and Jongsuk is intercepting the calls.
K-Drama 'Landscape in My Heart' week 2 nissa_amas_katoj 2009
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Sometimes he called the boardinghouse and asked Mrs. O’Toole if he could speak with Theodora.
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002
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Impossible, also, to imagine him calling the boardinghouse again and again until finally Mrs. O’Toole said, “Listen, sugar.
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002
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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.
Soul Learner_Tobsha 2006
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The boardinghouse will be the fourth door on your left.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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The boardinghouse will be the fourth door on your left.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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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. James Powell Cocke 1947
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I found a cheap room in a kind of boardinghouse and stayed the night.
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002
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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 Upton Sinclair 1923
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