What does boarder mean?

Definitions for boarder
ˈbɔr dər, ˈboʊr-board·er

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word boarder.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. lodger, boarder, roomernoun

    a tenant in someone's house

  2. boardernoun

    someone who forces their way aboard ship

    "stand by to repel boarders"

  3. boardernoun

    a pupil who lives at school during term time

Wiktionary

  1. boardernoun

    A pupil who lives at school during term time.

    The student body consisted primarily of boarders, except for a few children belonging to the school staff.

  2. boardernoun

    Someone who pays for meals and lodging in a house rather than a hotel.

    When I left for college, my parents took on a boarder in my old room to help defray expenses.

  3. boardernoun

    A sailor attacking an enemy ship by boarding her, or one repelling such attempts by an enemy.

    The captain shouted at the crew to grab arms and repel boarders.

  4. boardernoun

    Someone who uses a snowboard

    A group of boarders swept past us as we climbed the side of the ski run

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Boardernoun

    A tabler; one that eats with another at a settled rate.

    Etymology: from board.

ChatGPT

  1. boarder

    A boarder is a person who pays a regular fee for lodging, usually including meals, in another person's home, a boarding house, or a school. It can also refer to a person who temporarily lives or stays at a certain place such as a hotel or inn.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Boardernoun

    one who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind

  2. Boardernoun

    one who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship

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Anagrams for boarder »

  1. reboard

  2. broader

  3. arbored

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of boarder in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of boarder in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of boarder in a Sentence

  1. Kirstjen Nielsen:

    My message to members is clear : You have a chance. If you want to secure our borders, if you want to keep gangs such as MS-13 out of our communities, if you want to address... if you want to restore the rule of law, you must close the legal loopholes, however, if Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen want to support a broken immigration system that harms the interest of Americans and Boarder Security and Crime, that rewards those who thumb their noses at our laws... then don't vote to fix the problem. It's a simple choice.

  2. Kirstjen Nielsen:

    However, if Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen want to support a broken immigration system that harms the interest of Americans and Boarder Security and Crime, that rewards those who thumb their noses at our laws... then don't vote to fix the problem. It's a simple choice.

  3. Zach Henderson:

    Yes, Sloan. You're cruising, babe, you're cruising. You're a boarder.

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