as in tenant
one who rents a room or apartment in another's house
a boarder who paid $100 per week for a room and meals
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Recent Examples of boarder
One of the boarders, Charlie, came down to buy a box of cereal and some milk.
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Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
With snow in Colorado's mountains, skiers, boarders and other visitors are heading back to the high country.
—Callie Zanandrie, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
By the 1960s, generations of boarders had carved up the original interiors, and a young couple saw an opportunity.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 Nov. 2025
In the play, Farrow played Sharon, a lonely Iowa woman – estranged from her adult son, divorced from her husband – who decides to take a boarder into her large farmhouse.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
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Noun
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The full complex is now scheduled to open to residents and tenants early to mid-summer, Ahlquist COO Ryan Cleverley told the Statesman in an interview.—
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People are uneasy after a couple of tenants were served eviction notices in the last few months, Long said.—
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Phantom Ranch lodgers, including the hiker, were evacuated by helicopter due to the hazardous gas.—
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Short-term rental lodgers across the United States may be wasting more than $2.3 billion in food each year, a new study has found.—
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“Boarder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boarder. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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