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boarding house
noun as in home
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in hotel
Example Sentences
“Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” arguably the finest work in August Wilson’s 10-play series chronicling the African American experience in the 20th century, is set in a boarding house in Pittsburgh in 1911.
Jasmine stays at a Florida boarding house run by Lillian, who calls her new tenant Jazzy and helps her with bus fare to New York City.
It was once a bustling community with Japanese boarding houses that offered affordable rent and home-cooked meals.
The slogan is a spin on a well-known discriminatory phrase found outside some UK boarding houses from the 1950s.
Recognising Nigeria's deeply religious society, Charterhouse also permits parents to take their children home from the boarding house for Sunday church services, with the expectation that they return by Monday morning.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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