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boardinghouse

noun

Definition of boardinghouse

as in hotel

a building where people pay to live and have daily meals a onetime boardinghouse that is now the site of the town's historical museum

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Recent Examples of boardinghouse Not until the night of Saturday, June 24—a full week after the battle—did an express rider gallop up to the boardinghouse on Second Street where Adams and the rest of the Massachusetts delegation were sleeping. — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026 By the eve of World War I, Opatija boasted 24 hotels, 36 boardinghouses, and 12 sanatoriums attended by 80 physicians. — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2026 At the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Henson is making her Broadway debut as Bertha Holly, a woman running a cozy Pittsburgh boardinghouse with her husband, Seth (Cedric the Entertainer), in 1911, during the Great Migration. — Juliana Ukiomogbe, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2026 Behind Jovan, the posse breaks into boardinghouses, yanks a miner from behind a grocery counter, shoots another dead in his home. — Masha Hamilton, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for boardinghouse

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Noun

Chigurh kills Wells in his hotel room and then answers a call from Moss intended for Wells.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Oct. 2026
The restaurant is a beautiful glass and wood building that looks over the hotel's gardens.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2026

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What to do nearby A stone’s throw away is the Water Street Market, a complex of shops that includes an antiques mall, the Grazery café, and a neighborhood tavern called Parish.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2026
The restaurant carries the fantasy theme into its food and atmosphere, designed to feel like a tavern straight out of a Dungeons & Dragons campaign.

— Beret Leone, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026

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The woman panicked and ran to find a friend who lives at the motel.

— Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2026
Evidence leads to the mother, her boyfriend FWPD told CBS News Texas that investigators returned to the motel on Monday to review surveillance video.

— Briauna Brown, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026

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