Synonyms of 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

Related Words

• hotel
• tavern
• motel
• hostel
• inn
• lodgings
• campground
• hostelry
• lodge
• hospice
• guesthouse
• caravansary
• rooming house
• lodging house
• resort
• bed-and-breakfast
• dormitory
• camp
• accommodations
• auberge
• public house
• rest
• B and B
• dorm
• apartment hotel
• spa
• bunkhouse
• flophouse
• court
• motor inn
• youth hostel
• motor court
• tourist court
• motor lodge
• fleabag
• doss-house

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of boardinghouse

Not until the night of Saturday, June 24—a full week after the battle—did an express rider gallop up to the boardinghouse on Second Street where Adams and the rest of the Massachusetts delegation were sleeping. — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026

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