English [ edit ]
Pronunciation [ edit ]
boarding house (plural boarding houses )
A private house in which paying residents are provided with accommodation and meals .
1959 April, B. Perren, “The Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated , page 191:Yet Clacton , like every other station at a big seaside resort, is bedevilled by the traditional insistence of boarding-house landladies that their clients must arrive on Saturday before lunch and leave on Saturday after breakfast.
A boarding school building where boarders live during term time.
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Translations [ edit ]
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
Hungarian: panzió (hu) , vendégház (hu) , fogadó (hu) , vendégfogadó (hu)
Irish: teach lóistín m
Italian: pensione (it) f
Japanese: 下宿屋 ( げしゅくや, geshukuya ) , 寄宿舎 (ja) ( きしゅくしゃ, kishukusha )
Korean: 하숙집 (ko) ( hasukjip )
Kyrgyz: пансион (ky) f ( pansion )
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latin: hospitium n
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)