boardinghouse

or board·ing house

[ bawr-ding-hous, bohr- ]

noun

, plural board·ing·hous·es [bawr, -ding-hou-ziz, bohr, -].

1. a house at which board or board and lodging may be obtained for payment.

Word History and Origins

Origin of boardinghouse¹

First recorded in 1720–30

Example Sentences

Years later, she expressed regret about the way she had depicted a Black character who lives at the boardinghouse with the protagonist.

From Seattle Times

Two more of Washington’s “people”—a groom named Giles and a coach driver named Paris—stayed nearby in a boardinghouse.

From Literature

Activities at recreational camps and boardinghouses were limited by the presence of wildfires in parts of the country, and the industry still hasn’t fully recovered after the declines recorded in May and June.

From Seattle Times

Soon there was hardly room in his moldering Cotswolds mansion for his second wife, Elizabeth, who eventually moved to a boardinghouse in Torquay, an English working-class seaside resort.

From New York Times

In awe, the people watched as their president disappeared into the boardinghouse.

From Literature