 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
boarder
noun
1: a tenant in someone's house [syn: {lodger}, {roomer}]
2: someone who forces their way aboard ship; "stand by to repel
boarders"
3: a pupil who lives at school during term time
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Boarder \Board"er\, noun
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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, vegetarian
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