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boarder

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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board·er /ˈbɔːdə $ ˈbɔːrdər/ noun [countable]  1. SESa student who stays at a school during the night, as well as during the day 寄宿生,住校生 day pupil2. DLTDHsomeone who pays to live in another person’s house, with some or all of their meals provided 〔住在他人家里的〕寄宿者,寄膳宿者 SYN lodger
Examples from the Corpus
boarderEven today, most of its 300odd boarders are orphans or homeless children.Students were to be taken in as boarders, having been recommended by a respectable person who knew them or their families.There can be a really heavy feeling sometimes between local surfers and visitors and between the real surfers and the boogie boarders.I could never get a decent swing with my left hand, but at best I would use it only to repel boarders.In the second car came all the boarders, little ladies with pastel waves and bright anxious eyes.He shouted directions to the boarders, and, when they were ignored, he shouted contrary orders.One of George's brothers was recently placed in a residential school for children with moderate learning difficulties as a weekly boarder.Roughly half of them were weekly boarders.
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boarder
boarder /ˈbɔːdə $ ˈbɔːrdər/ noun [countable]
1. a student who stays at a school during the night, as well as during the day ⇨ day pupil
2. someone who pays to live in another person’s house, with some or all of their meals provided
   SYN  lodger


board·erBrE /ˈbɔːdə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈbɔːrdər/ 🔊 noun (especially BrE) a child who lives at school and goes home for the holidays 在学校寄宿的学生;寄宿生boarders and day pupils寄宿生和走读生a person who pays money to live in a room in sb else's house 付费寄住者;寄膳宿者 SYN lodger