Definitions for boardinghouse

boardinghouse board·ing·house

Spelling: [bawr-ding-hous, bohr-]
IPA: /ˈbɔr dɪŋˌhaʊs, ˈboʊr-/

Boardinghouse is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 2762 anagrams from letters in boardinghouse (abdeghinoorsu).

Definitions for boardinghouse

noun

  1. a house at which board or board and lodging may be obtained for payment.

Origin of boardinghouse

First recorded in 1720-30

Examples for boardinghouse

When we arrived at my boardinghouse the landlady put her to bed at once and I did not see her again until the next morning.

Galland here found himself in Smith's clutches, being directed to "put stock" into the boardinghouse to be built.

She lives in a boardinghouse at Brompton, and comes to the party in a fly.

Everything was new and shiny, and we had our supper at a long table with about twenty other people, just like a boardinghouse.

We lived there at a boardinghouse, and she behaved badly, very badly.

The principal commands in this "revelation" directed the building of another "holy house," or Temple, and a boardinghouse.

And again he used them as breastworks in foraging at the boardinghouse.

Jurgis got himself a place in a boardinghouse with some congenial friends.

The younger brother and Grace were sitting on the stoop of the boardinghouse.

His boardinghouse was but a few steps away, and two minutes later he was safe in his room.

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