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board·ing house

also board·ing·house (bôr′dĭng-hous′)

A house where paying guests are provided with meals and lodging.

boarding house

1. a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests

2. (Education) Austral a house for boarders at a school. See also house¹⁰

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Noun

boarding house - a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests

boardinghouse

bed and breakfast, bed-and-breakfast - an overnight boardinghouse with breakfast

house - a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families; "he has a house on Cape Cod"; "she felt she had to get out of the house"

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Pension

pensión residencia

pensione

penzion

boarding house

n → pensione f

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All the folks who kept the boarding house could tell was that about a year before they had found him lying on their doorstep one morning in an awful condition--his head battered to a jelly almost.

He thought he'd poke round a bit--Captain Jim was always meddlesome, just like a man--and he went to inquiring round among the sailors' boarding houses and places like that, to see if he could find out anything about the crew of the Four Sisters.

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The owners of his ship, it seems, had lent him one, in which to carry his heavy chest to his boarding house.

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McGinty added that it was impossible for anyone to remain secret at the Union House, and that, therefore, he would be obliged if McMurdo and Scanlan would put the strangers up for a few days in their boarding house.

The boarding house was near the edge of the town, and soon they were at the crossroads which is beyond its boundary.

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