boarding houseˈboarding house noun [countable] 
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Thesaurus- Con had run out of an alley near the boarding house when he'd heard the noise.
- He is now on probation, living in a boarding house in another part of the town since his arrest.
- He wondered vaguely about going back to Mrs Short's boarding house and getting a pen and paper.
- In the boarding house he had lived in there was a privy in the backyard.
- Scholz dates back to 1860, when it was opened as a boarding house.
- Simply to imagine it is to defy credibility: A phone rings in a boarding house in Mobile, Alabama.
- They spent that night at a cheap railway boarding house hard by the tracks.
- View from the second floor of Mrs O'Neill's boarding house.
Longman Language Activatora place where you can stay for a short period of time► a place to stay/somewhere to stay
a private house where you pay to sleep and eat SYN guesthouse especially spoken a place where you can stay, for example a hotel or a room in someone's house: · She needs somewhere to stay while she's at college.· If I can't find a place to stay, maybe I could stay at your pad.
► accommodation also accommodations American a place where you pay money to stay, for example a hotel or a room that you rent: · The price includes flights, accommodation and transport.· You won't find any really luxurious accommodations, but there are adequate hotels and guest houses.· The cost of the six-day trip includes meals and motel accommodations.· The cost of rented accommodation keeps going up.
► lodgings British a house where you pay rent to the people who own it so that you can live in one of their rooms: · The Henstocks were lucky enough to find lodgings in the village while they awaited a new home.· She's going to stay in lodgings until she finds a place of her own.board and lodgings (=when the price you pay includes some or all of your meals): · She was given free board and lodgings at the school where she worked.
► guest house a small hotel where it is fairly cheap to stay, or a small house close to a larger house, where visitors can stay: · They told me the old cinema had been turned into a guest house.· We pulled up at a little guest house, but there were no vacancies there.
► boarding house a private house where you pay to sleep and eat, and where you stay for a short time: · He took two rooms in a private boarding house.· Some of the boarding houses we stayed in were really run-down.
► bed and breakfast also B and B a small hotel or house where you pay to sleep for the night and have breakfast the next morning: · We found a cheap bed and breakfast near the coast.· 'Where will you stay when you get there?' 'Oh, a B and B or a little guest house I expect.'
► digs British informal a room in a house that you pay rent for, especially temporarily, for example because you are a student: · In our third year at university, we moved into digs in Elm Street.
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