Definition of "boarding house" [boarding house]

• A house where paying guests are provided with meals and lodging. (noun)

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• "Bianchon had been a medical student lodging in a squalid boarding house in the Quartier Latin, known as the Maison Vauquer."
• "In the late afternnon when Schutz, Welch's laboratory helper, seemed about to sweep him out, Reed would leave the laboratory and walk down the hill from the hospital to the boarding house where he was living with Mrs. Reed and Blossom."
• "Sally, Nancy, the Littles, and I walked back to the boarding house from our morning search."