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boarder
CIDE DICTIONARY
boarder, n.
- One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind. [1913 Webster]
- One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship. Totten. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
boarder, n.
1 a person who boards (see BOARD v. 2a), esp. a pupil at a boarding-school.
2 a person who boards a ship, esp. an enemy.
1 a person who boards (see BOARD v. 2a), esp. a pupil at a boarding-school.
2 a person who boards a ship, esp. an enemy.
THESAURUS
boarder
Brillat-Savarin, Lucullus, board-and-roomer, bon vivant, 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, luncher, man-eater, meat-eater, mouth, omnivore, omophagist, pantophagist, paying guest, phytophage, picnicker, plant-eater, predacean, renter, roomer, tenant, transient, transient guest, trencherman, underlessee, vegetarianROGET THESAURUS
boarder
Inhabitant
N inhabitant, resident, residentiary, dweller, indweller, addressee, occupier, occupant, householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant, settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist, islander, denizen, citizen, burgher, oppidan, cockney, cit, townsman, burgess, villager, cottager, cottier, cotter, compatriot, backsettler, boarder, hotel keeper, innkeeper, habitant, paying guest, planter, native, indigene, aborigines, autochthones, Englishman, John Bull, newcomer, aboriginal, American, Caledonian, Cambrian, Canadian, Canuck, downeaster, Scot, Scotchman, Hibernian, Irishman, Welshman, Uncle Sam, Yankee, Brother Jonathan, garrison, crew, population, people, colony, settlement, household, mir, indigenous, native, natal, autochthonal, autochthonous, British, English, American, Canadian, Irish, Scotch, Scottish, Welsh, domestic, domiciliated, domiciled, naturalized, vernacular, domesticated, domiciliary, in the occupation of, garrisoned by, occupied by.For further exploring for "boarder" in Webster Dictionary Online