Dictionary

room and board en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A place of lodging with daily meals (board), usually provided in return for rent or other considerations.
   • I jumped at the opportunity of talking to Rose on such a scabrous matter and at the same time solved Smith's difficulty by proposing that he should come and take room and board with the Gregorys—a great stroke of practical diplomacy on my part, or so it appeared to me 1922, Frank Harris, “X”, in My Life and Loves:
   • Louisville is joining more than two dozen other schools that have begun promising a free education—books, tuition, and room and board—to students from poor families. 2007 January 11, Michael Lindenberger, “Colleges Boost Aid to Poor Students”, in Time:
   • In return for the work Sanderson was allowed an attic room and board at the Nelson cottage. 1902, Edward Stratemeyer, chapter 2, in The Young Bridge-Tender:

Coordinates

bed and breakfast

Relateds

rooming house · roommate · hot bed

Synonyms

pension · board and lodging

Translations (11)

pl wikt i opierunek (place for lodging with daily meals — see also board and lodging) · sv kost och logi (place for lodging with daily meals — see also board and lodging) · nl kamer met volpension (place for lodging with daily meals — see also board and lodging) · es interno (place for lodging with daily meals — see also board and lodging) · es alojamiento y comida (place for lodging with daily meals — see also board and lodging) · fi täysihoitola (place for lodging with daily meals — see also board and lodging) · es interna (place for lodging with daily meals — see also board and lodging) · pdt Kost (place for lodging with daily meals — see also board and lodging) · cmn 食宿 (place for lodging with daily meals — see also board and lodging) · cmn 膳宿 (place for lodging with daily meals — see also board and lodging) · la parocha (place for lodging with daily meals — see also board and lodging)