BOARDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boarder mean? 

• BOARDER (noun)
  The noun BOARDER has 3 senses:

1. a tenant in someone's house

2. someone who forces their way aboard ship

3. a pupil who lives at school during term time

  Familiarity information: BOARDER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOARDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tenant in someone's house

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

boarder; lodger; roomer

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))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who forces their way aboard ship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

stand by to repel boarders

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 pupil who lives at school during term time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)

 Context examples 

Besides, the servant's room enabled them to take in two boarders instead of one.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Somebody had placed her, several years back, at Mrs. Goddard's school, and somebody had lately raised her from the condition of scholar to that of parlour-boarder.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The boarders swarmed over the fence like monkeys.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Miss Shepherd is a boarder at the Misses Nettingalls' establishment.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The giant Tete-noire, towering above his fellows and clad from head to foot in plate of proof, led on his boarders, waving a huge mace in the air, with which he struck to the deck every man who approached him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He quickly arranged with the Turk that if the latter should find a favourable opportunity for escape before Felix could return to Italy, Safie should remain as a boarder at a convent at Leghorn; and then, quitting the lovely Arabian, he hastened to Paris and delivered himself up to the vengeance of the law, hoping to free De Lacey and Agatha by this proceeding.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In the kitchen he found Jim, the other boarder, eating mush very languidly, with a sick, far-away look in his eyes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But his words were unheeded, no shot was fired, and the last boarder made good his escape and disappeared with the rest into the wood.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She is known only as parlour-boarder at a common school.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Steerforth, the only parlour-boarder.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)