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BOARDER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A pupil who lives at school during term time
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("boarder" is a kind of...):
pupil; school-age child; schoolchild (a young person attending school (up through senior high school))
Derivation:
board (lodge and take meals (at))
board (live and take one's meals at or in)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who forces their way aboard ship
Example:
stand by to repel boarders
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("boarder" is a kind of...):
interloper; intruder; trespasser (someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission)
Derivation:
board (get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.))
Sense 3
Meaning:
A tenant in someone's house
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("boarder" is a kind of...):
renter; tenant (someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else)
Derivation:
board (lodge and take meals (at))
Context examples:
"The pincher," was his thought; "too miserly to burn two cents' worth of gas and save his boarders' necks."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
We've a little stranger here—he! he! A noo boarder and lodger, sir, and looking fit and taut as a fiddle; slep' like a supercargo, he did, right alongside of John—stem to stem we was, all night.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Let her marry Robert Martin, and she is safe, respectable, and happy for ever; but if you encourage her to expect to marry greatly, and teach her to be satisfied with nothing less than a man of consequence and large fortune, she may be a parlour-boarder at Mrs. Goddard's all the rest of her life—or, at least, (for Harriet Smith is a girl who will marry somebody or other,) till she grow desperate, and is glad to catch at the old writing-master's son.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Miss Smith, and Miss Bickerton, another parlour boarder at Mrs. Goddard's, who had been also at the ball, had walked out together, and taken a road, the Richmond road, which, though apparently public enough for safety, had led them into alarm.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The idea of her being indebted to Mrs. Elton for what was called an introduction—of her going into public under the auspices of a friend of Mrs. Elton's—probably some vulgar, dashing widow, who, with the help of a boarder, just made a shift to live!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
A man named Klipspringer was there so often and so long that he became known as "the boarder"—I doubt if he had any other home.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
It was Mr. Klipspringer, the "boarder."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
