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
The daughter of a widowed boardinghouse keeper, Mary moved with her mother to Manhattan and, as a teenager, began working behind the counter at John Anderson’s Liberty Street Cigar Shop in Lower Manhattan.
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Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
Down the beach Madam LeFleur stood on the porch of her boardinghouse beating slugs off a yak wool rug.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Her cousin becomes suspicious when Levi returns to the boardinghouse alone.
—Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2025
True enough, perhaps, but Isabel was not pleased on finding herself in the company of boardinghouse people.
—Charles Portis, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
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Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
Down the beach Madam LeFleur stood on the porch of her boardinghouse beating slugs off a yak wool rug.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Her cousin becomes suspicious when Levi returns to the boardinghouse alone.
—Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2025
True enough, perhaps, but Isabel was not pleased on finding herself in the company of boardinghouse people.
—Charles Portis, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boardinghouse
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As for the tourists, their van pulls up, far in the background of a long shot that gazes through the grand lobby of the hotel—where, in the foreground, a small folk orchestra of blind musicians, accompanied by a dance troupe’s festive gyrations, provides a showy welcome.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Feb. 2026
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And at the top of the Peace-of-Mind list is Barbados, an island in the eastern Caribbean that stood out for its honeymoon infrastructure (think plenty of luxury, all-inclusive hotels and romantic on-island experiences), low crime rates, and favorable hurricane and disruption risk.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Feb. 2026
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Don’t leave without ordering a Bar X plate of fries and dipping sauce to enjoy while soaking up the tavern’s wide range of cocktails, beers, and wines.—
Joey Skladany,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Feb. 2026
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The tavern was a main gathering point at the start of the Revolutionary War, and once held Nathaniel Hawthorne and Theodore Roosevelt.—
Paige Moore,
AZCentral.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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The department also will close 13 Pathway Home motel sites by the end of next fiscal year, and use one-time funding sources to find housing for the people who must leave.—
Andrew Khouri,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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The organization is also restoring a motel at 5100 Linwood Blvd.—
Suzanne King,
Kansas City Star,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Boardinghouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boardinghouse. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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