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DAY BOARDER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does day boarder mean?
• DAY BOARDER (noun)
The noun DAY BOARDER has 1 sense:
1. a schoolchild at a boarding school who has meals at school but sleeps at home
Familiarity information: DAY BOARDER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A schoolchild at a boarding school who has meals at school but sleeps at home
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("day boarder" is a kind of...):
pupil; school-age child; schoolchild (a young person attending school (up through senior high school))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "day boarder"):
dayboy (a day boarder who is a boy)
daygirl (a day boarder who is a girl)
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