boardinghouse

[bawr-ding-hous, bohr-]

board·ing·house

[bawr-ding-hous, bohr-]
noun, plural board·ing·hous·es [-hou-ziz] .
a house at which board or board and lodging may be obtained for payment.
Also, boarding house.


Origin:
1720–30
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Boardinghouse is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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boardinghouse

noun
a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests [syn: boarding house
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