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boarding house en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. A private house in which paying residents are provided with accommodation and meals.
   • Yet Clacton, like every other station at a big seaside resort, is bedevilled by the traditional insistence of boarding-house landladies that their clients must arrive on Saturday before lunch and leave on Saturday after breakfast. 1959 April, B. Perren, “The Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 191:
2. A boarding school building where boarders live during term time.

Forms

Coordinates

dormitory (boarding school quarters) · dorm (boarding school quarters)

Synonyms

rooming house (one or both senses) · pension (one or both senses) · guesthouse (one or both senses) · digs (one or both senses) · lodging house (one or both senses)

Translations (60)

et kodumajutus (private house for paying guests) · tr pansiyon (boarding school building) · el οικοτροφείο (boarding school building) · ru пансиона́т (private house for paying guests) · nl pension (private house for paying guests) · hu fogadó (private house for paying guests) · sk internát (boarding school building) · et külalistemaja (private house for paying guests) · fi kotimajoitus (private house for paying guests) · pl pensjonat (private house for paying guests) · cmn 寄宿舍 (private house for paying guests) · de Gästehaus (private house for paying guests) · hu panzió (private house for paying guests) · es pensión (private house for paying guests) · la hospitium (private house for paying guests) · bg пансио́н (private house for paying guests) · pl internat (boarding school building) · lv pansionāts (private house for paying guests) · lv internāts (boarding school building) · pt pensão (private house for paying guests) · pl bursa (boarding school building) · ru интерна́т (boarding school building) · hu vendégház (private house for paying guests) · uk пансіо́н (private house for paying guests) · cmn 宿舍 (boarding school building) · hu internátus (boarding school building) · cmn 招待所 (private house for paying guests) · hu vendégfogadó (private house for paying guests) · fr pensionnat (boarding school building) · af gastehuis (private house for paying guests) · pl kwatera (private house for paying guests) · ru бординга́уз (private house for paying guests) · th หอพัก (private house for paying guests) · de Pension (private house for paying guests) · vi nhà nghỉ (private house for paying guests) · ja 下宿屋 (private house for paying guests) · hu diákotthon (boarding school building) · es pupilaje (private house for paying guests) · de Gasthaus (private house for paying guests) · hu kollégium (boarding school building) · pt pensionato (private house for paying guests) · fi majatalo (private house for paying guests) · et pansion (private house for paying guests) · fo næmingaheim (boarding school building) · hu bentlakásos iskola (boarding school building) · ga teach lóistín (private house for paying guests) · es internado (boarding school building) · fr pension (private house for paying guests) · ja 寄宿舎 (private house for paying guests) · vi nhà trọ (private house for paying guests) · ky пансион (private house for paying guests) · eo pensiono (private house for paying guests) · mi whare rīhi (private house for paying guests) · ru пансио́н (private house for paying guests) · et pansionaat (private house for paying guests) · eo loĝantejo (private house for paying guests) · ko 하숙집 (private house for paying guests) · it pensione (private house for paying guests) · fi asuntola (boarding school building) · hi छात्रालय (boarding school building)