Boarder

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Boarder \Board"er\, n.
     1. One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and
        lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any
        kind.
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     2. (Naut.) One who boards a ship; one selected to board an
        enemy's ship. --Totten.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  boarder
       n 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 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