单词 | boarding house |
释义 | boarding house From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Tourismboarding houseˈboarding house noun [countable]DHDLTa private house where you pay to sleep and eat SYN guesthouseExamples from the Corpusboarding house• Scholz dates back to 1860, when it was opened as a boarding house.• He is now on probation, living in a boarding house in another part of the town since his arrest.• 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.• 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.• Con had run out of an alley near the boarding house when he'd heard the noise. |
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