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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