boarding

verb

present participle of board
1
as in feeding
to provide food or meals for housed and boarded many foster children over the years

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2
as in housing
to provide with living quarters or shelter boarded the stray cat until a permanent home could be found

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Recent Examples of boarding Meanwhile, Grupo Morbido’s Pablo Guisa Koestinger is boarding as a producer alongside executive producers Eli Roth, Begos and Meg Thomson. — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 24 July 2026 News reports also said they were detained and questioned on Monday upon boarding a chartered flight in New York that was carrying the Argentine national team, after its 1-0 loss to Spain in the 2026 World Cup final on Sunday. — Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 23 July 2026 The school says around 75% of its prep pupils participate in some form of boarding to gradually prepare for full-time boarding schools. — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 20 July 2026 Imagine families arriving from Orlando before boarding a Disney cruise. — Jack Kennedy, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 July 2026 But there seems to be very little awareness that others nearby may be trying to relax, read, eat or simply enjoy a few minutes of peace before boarding a flight. — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 16 July 2026 The main compartment has two zippered mesh pockets for effortless organization, while the exterior offers two more zippered pockets for stashing small items before going through TSA or boarding the plane. — Destinee Scott, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2026 With aesthetic tourism on the rise, boarding a flight for a better (and cheaper) upper bleph has become increasingly common. — Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026 The 59-year-old actress was spotted boarding a plane in Ibiza, Spain. — Juliana Ukiomogbe, InStyle, 15 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boarding
  1. feeding
  2. housing
  3. catering
  4. lodging
  5. accommodating
  6. sheltering
  7. rooming
  8. camping
Verb
  • The combination of these two groups feeding on a single stem of common milkweed cleared all the leaves and seed pods within three days.
    — Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 26 July 2026
  • After feeding coins into a meter, Darien Wharton, 21, of west Orlando, jogged across West Robinson Street to drop something at a friend’s apartment.
    — Sara-James Ranta, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2026
Definition of feeding
Verb
  • Esquire is one of only a handful of theaters housing the Grand Theatre projector that can roll through the film.
    — Tania Azhang, Sacbee.com, 18 July 2026
  • The interior resembles a personal library, with shelves housing the brand’s chains, Foundation collection and 10 tenets alongside rows of books.
    — Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 17 July 2026
Definition of housing
Verb
  • Separated from downtown Ho Chi Minh City by a bend in the Saigon River, Thảo Điền was once best known as the city’s expat enclave—a leafy neighborhood of villas, international schools, and cafés catering largely to foreign residents.
    — Dan Q. Dao, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2026
  • Road trippers will find public EV charging points in key market towns or at more than 50 self-catering cottages offering on-site charging.
    — Emese Maczko, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of catering
Verb
  • But a multi-family residential condo needs a Certificate of Use from the city for lodging rentals of less than 30 days.
    — Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 25 July 2026
  • These fiery particles seek out the smallest vulnerabilities, lodging in gutters, slipping through attic vents or settling into dry debris near your home.
    — Neil Collins, Washington Post, 24 July 2026
Definition of lodging
Verb
  • The service Whether at the front desk or poolside concierge, the service at the Arlo Williamsburg is readily available and accommodating.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 July 2026
  • But Buckingham Palace staff are reportedly unhappy again about the idea of accommodating the duke.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 28 July 2026
Definition of accommodating
Verb
  • The city is also sheltering at least 100,000 people who fled violence elsewhere in the country.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
  • Cleaning Up Leaves in Early Spring Just like other pollinators, fireflies and their larvae also use fallen leaf litter as sheltering spots in spring.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 July 2026
Definition of sheltering
Verb
  • Through the course of rooming together in dorms at rookie minicamp, doing community service work, taking group trips to Braves games and, of course, navigating practices, the Falcons’ rookie class formed a tight bond.
    — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 22 July 2026
  • The couple takes in a boarder, Herald Loomis, whose search for his missing wife draws the house into a reckoning with forces — both human and supernatural — that haunt everyone who is rooming there.
    — Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 13 May 2026
Definition of rooming
Verb
  • The 39-year-old was camping with wife Hayley Hubbard, who came to the rescue, and their three children, Olivia Rose, 8, Luca Reed, 6 and Atlas Roy, 5, when the trip took a painful turn.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 28 July 2026
  • The flash flood, triggered by a period of sudden heavy rainfall, hit a scenic area in the province's Weiyuan county in the afternoon and trapped some tourists who were camping.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 26 July 2026
Definition of camping

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“Boarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boarding. Accessed 1 Aug. 2026.

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