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Meaning of BOARDER

Pronunciation:  'bowrdur

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a pupil who lives at school during term time
  2. [n]  someone who forces their way aboard ship; "stand by to repel boarders"
  3. [n]  a tenant in someone's house
 
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 Synonyms: lodger, roomer
 
 See Also: interloper, intruder, pupil, renter, schoolchild, tenant, trespasser

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Board"er\, n.
1. One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and
   lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any
   kind.
2. (Naut.) One who boards a ship; one selected to board an
   enemy's ship. --Totten.
 
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Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: board-and-roomer, bon vivant, Brillat-Savarin, cannibal, carnivore, connoisseur of food, consumer, diner, diner-out, eater, eater-out, epicure, feeder, flesh-eater, fruitarian, gastronome, glutton, gourmand, gourmet, grain-eater, graminivore, granivore, herbivore, high liver, hungry mouth, lactovegetarian, lessee, lodger, Lucullus, luncher, man-eater, meat-eater, mouth, omnivore, omophagist, pantophagist, paying guest, phytophage, picnicker, plant-eater, predacean, renter, roomer, tenant, transient, transient guest, trencherman, underlessee, vegetarian
 

 

 

 

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