boarding house

See also: boarding-house and boardinghouse

English

Alternative forms

• boarding-house, boardinghouse

Pronunciation

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Noun

boarding house (plural boarding houses)

1. A private house in which paying residents are provided with accommodation and meals.
   • 1959 April, B. Perren, “The Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 191:

     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.

2. A boarding school building where boarders live during term time.

Synonyms

• (one or both senses): digs (UK), guesthouse, lodging house, rooming house (US)

Coordinate terms

• (boarding school quarters): dorm, dormitory

Translations

private house for paying guests

• Bulgarian: пансио́н (bg) m (pansión)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 招待所 (zh) (zhāodàisuǒ), 寄宿舍 (zh) (jìsùshè)

• Dutch: pension (nl) n
• Esperanto: loĝantejo, pensiono
• Estonian: külalistemaja, pansion (historical), pansionaat (historical), kodumajutus (modern)
• Finnish: kotimajoitus, majatalo (fi)
• French: pension (fr) f
• German: Pension (de) f, Gasthaus (de) n, Gästehaus (de) n
• Hungarian: panzió (hu), vendégház (hu), fogadó (hu), vendégfogadó (hu)
• Irish: teach lóistín m
• Italian: pensione (it) f
• Japanese: 下宿屋 (げしゅくや, geshukuya), 寄宿舎 (ja) (きしゅくしゃ, kishukusha)
• Korean: 하숙집 (ko) (hasukjip)
• Kyrgyz: пансион (ky) f (pansion)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: hospitium n
• Latvian: pansionāts m
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: whare rīhi
• Polish: pensjonat (pl) m, kwatera (pl) f
• Portuguese: pensão (pt) f, pensionato m
• Russian: пансио́н (ru) m (pansión), пансиона́т (ru) m (pansionát)
• Spanish: pensión (es) f, pupilaje
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: หอพัก (hɔ̌ɔ-pák)
• Ukrainian: пансіо́н m (pansión)
• Vietnamese: nhà nghỉ, nhà trọ (vi)

boarding school building

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宿舍 (zh) (sùshè)

• Faroese: næmingaheim n
• Finnish: asuntola (fi)
• French: pensionnat (fr) m
• Greek: οικοτροφείο (el) n (oikotrofeío)
• Hungarian: diákotthon (hu), kollégium (hu), bentlakásos iskola, (archaic) internátus (hu)
• Latvian: internāts m
• Polish: internat (pl) m, bursa (pl) f
• Russian: интерна́т (ru) m (intɛrnát)
• Slovak: internát m
• Spanish: internado (es) m
• Turkish: pansiyon (tr)