Thesaurus results for BOARDINGHOUSE

boardinghouse

noun

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 By the eve of World War I, Opatija boasted 24 hotels, 36 boardinghouses, and 12 sanatoriums attended by 80 physicians. —

Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2026 At the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Henson is making her Broadway debut as Bertha Holly, a woman running a cozy Pittsburgh boardinghouse with her husband, Seth (Cedric the Entertainer), in 1911, during the Great Migration. —

Juliana Ukiomogbe, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2026 Behind Jovan, the posse breaks into boardinghouses, yanks a miner from behind a grocery counter, shoots another dead in his home. —

Masha Hamilton, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2026 Platter came from Basel, Switzerland, where his father ran a school, four boardinghouses, a farm, and a printing press. —

Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for boardinghouse

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As the resort’s premium hotel-within-a-hotel experience, Hōkūpa‘a Tower guests will not only find larger indoor and outdoor room layouts, but will also gain access to The Lānai, a private lounge-style space with complimentary food and drinks, a private bar, and infinity-edge cocktail pools.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 June 2026
The rapper could be seen dragging Cassie down the hotel hallway in surveillance footage that was shown to the jury and previously released to the public in 2024.

— Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 4 June 2026