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Boarding

noun

The act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft. Synonyms: embarkation, embarkment. Antonym: disembarkation.

A structure of boards.

Board

verb

(past & past part. boarded; pres. part. boarding)

Get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.). Synonym: get on. Antonym: get off.

Live and take one's meals at or in. Synonym: room.

Lodge and take meals (at).

Provide food and lodging (for).

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"Boarding" Quotes from Famous Books

... Theobald naturally felt rather bashful on finding himself the admired of five strange young ladies. I remember when I was a boy myself I was once asked to take tea at a girls' school where one of my sisters was boarding. I was then about twelve years old. Everything went off well during tea-time, for the Lady Principal of the establishment was present. But there came a time when she went away and I was left alone with the girls. The moment the mistress's back was turned the head girl, who was about ...

— The Way of All Flesh • Samuel Butler

... to attend to now, and as this is under the supervision of a competent overseer, it give me no uneasiness. I suggested to Nina that she should accompany me to Florida soon after her arrival in Boston, but she preferred remaining for a time in some boarding school, and I made arrangements for her to be received as a boarder in Charlestown Seminary, leaving her there while I went South to transact business incumbent upon me as ...

— Darkness and Daylight • Mary J. Holmes

... were most anxious to show their loyalty, and to enjoy themselves at the same time. So there were fireworks and torchlight processions, and set pieces at the Crystal Palace, with "Blessings on our Prince" and "Long Live our Royal Darling" in different-colored fires; and the most private of boarding schools had a half holiday; and even the children of plumbers and authors had tuppence each given them to spend as ...

— The Book of Dragons • Edith Nesbit

... had arrived very late one Sunday night three weeks ago, and had hot words with the proprietor. He had been late before, and had been warned. He was a very talented fellow, but wild and not to be depended upon. The old man gave us the address of a French boarding-house on Seventh Avenue where Bouchalka used to room. We drove there at once, but the woman who kept the place said that he had gone away two weeks before, leaving no address, as he never got letters. Another Bohemian, who did ...

— Youth and the Bright Medusa • Willa Cather

... a silence of a few seconds, then the sound of a chair scraping the floor, heavy boots on the boarding, and the two, Commandant and girl, descending the stairs. Unastonished, they stepped out and ...

— Young Hilda at the Wars • Arthur Gleason

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