boardinghouse

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a private house that provides rooms and regular meals to paying residents

   The traveling actors rented two rooms in a boardinghouse near the station.

A compound of boarding + house. Board developed the sense 'regular meals provided for payment' from the dining table itself, so a boardinghouse supplied both lodging and meals to its residents.

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