单词 | day boarder |
释义 | day boardern. 1. A pupil at a boarding school or similar educational establishment who remains at school for meals, but returns home in the evening. Cf. boarder n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > day pupil day scholar1699 day-boy1750 day boarder1758 day pupil1784 day student1795 home boarder1816 day girl1831 out-pupil1841 extern1848 daybug1909 1758 Gen. Acct. Regulations Educ. Youth in Seminary (Hibernian Soc. Improvem. Educ.) 3 Annual Expence of Commons and Tuition for a Day-Boarder, Twenty Guineas. 1798 Times 1 Jan. 1/2 Day-Boarders, Three Guineas per Quarter; and Day-Scholars, One Guinea and a Half. 1853 E. M. Sewell Exper. of Life iii. 26 A very tolerable school..where they were allowed..to attend as day boarders. 1884 Westm. Rev. Jan. 87 Day-boarders at Harrow were not received on equal terms by the aristocratic crowd. 1962 Studies: Irish Q. Rev. 51 441 He was sent at the age of twelve as a day-boarder to the local Jesuit college. 2005 K. Marks In off Red vi. 53 The headmaster lived in the house and day boarders, of whom initially I was one, went there for what passed for lunch. 2. A person who pays to have prepared meals at a boarding house but who does not lodge there overnight. Cf. boarder n. 1. Chiefly U.S. in later use. Now historical. ΚΠ 1761 London Chron. 12 May 459/1 After the Revolution, Lewis XIV. received King James as a kind of a day-boarder into his dominions. 1788 Æ. Morison Trial W. Brodie & G. Smith 192 You were informed that these two men dined and supped every day, that is, were day-boarders in his house. 1858 Emerson's Mag. & Putnam's Monthly Jan. 52/1 We were four lodgers, and a day boarder. 1869 Liverpool Mercury 21 May Mr Woodruff: were all these people sleeping in the house? Inspector: Yes, sir.—Mr. Woodruff: These were not mere day boarders? 1892 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 8 June 5/5 For Rent—Delightful south room, with good board, bath and gas... Day boarders taken also. 1920 Q. National Fire Protection Assoc. Jan. 214 The church board pleaded that the house was..a plain boarding house..and that it was mainly for ‘day boarders’. 1998 E. Y. Enstam Women & Creation Urban Life 42 Women who took in ‘day boarders’ provided one or two meals daily but no lodging. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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