lodging house

American  

noun

1. a house in which rooms are rented, especially a house other than an inn or hotel; rooming house.

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lodging house British  

noun

1. a private home providing accommodation and meals for lodgers

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Etymology

Origin of lodging house

First recorded in 1760–70

Example Sentences

In 1887 a New York lodging house advertised “a bowl of coffee, hamburger steak and bread” for 10 cents.

From Washington Post

Build SROs, grant more permits for boarding or lodging houses, which is the type of housing transients and low income folks have historically lived in, but which began to disappear around the early 20th century.

From New York Times

In her heyday in the early 1960s, Alberta also ran a second lodging house called the Farm, and the Crystal Lounge jazz club out on Route 66.

From The Guardian

Menus from the era show that turtle soup was a common offering at restaurants and lodging houses around the cove.

From National Geographic

If enacted, Ms. Paulin said, the legislation will apply to “all lodging facilities,” which the bill defines as hotels, motels, motor courts, apartment hotels, resorts, inns, boardinghouses, rooming houses or lodging houses.

From New York Times

Related Words

• B and B
• B&B