boarding house

See also: boardinghouse

English

Noun

boarding house (plural boarding houses)

1. A private house in which paying residents are provided with accommodation and meals.
2. A boarding school building where boarders live during term time.

Synonyms

• digs (UK)
• guesthouse
• lodging house
• rooming house (US)

Translations

private house for paying guests

• Bulgarian: пансио́н (bg) m (pansión)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 招待所 (zh) (zhāodàisuǒ), 寄宿舍 (zh) (jìsùshè)

• Dutch: pension (nl) n
• Esperanto: loĝantejo, pensiono
• Estonian: külalistemaja, pansion (historical), pansionaat (historical), kodumajutus (modern)
• Finnish: kotimajoitus, majatalo (fi)
• French: pension (fr) f
• German: Pension (de) f, Gasthaus (de) n, Gästehaus (de) n
• Irish: teach lóistín m
• Italian: pensione (it) f
• Japanese: 下宿屋 (げしゅくや, geshukuya), 寄宿舎 (きしゅくしゃ, kishukusha)
• Korean: 하숙집 (ko) (hasukjip)

• Kyrgyz: пансион (ky) f (pansion)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: pansionāts m
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: whare rīhi
• Polish: pensjonat (pl) m, kwatera (pl) f
• Portuguese: pensão (pt) f, pensionato m
• Russian: пансио́н (ru) m (pansión), пансиона́т (ru) m (pansionát)
• Spanish: pensión (es) f, pupilaje
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: หอพัก (hɔ̌ɔ-pák)
• Ukrainian: пансіо́н m (pansión)
• Vietnamese: nhà nghỉ, nhà trọ (vi)

boarding school building

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宿舍 (zh) (sùshè)

• Faroese: næmingaheim n
• Finnish: asuntola (fi)
• French: pensionnat (fr) m
• Greek: οικοτροφείο (el) n (oikotrofeío)

• Latvian: internāts m
• Polish: internat (pl) m
• Russian: интерна́т (ru) m (intɛrnát)
• Slovak: internát m
• Spanish: internado (es) m