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Hostel vs Boarding - What's the difference?

hostel | boarding |

As nouns the difference between hostel and boarding

is that hostel is a commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel while boarding is the act of people getting aboard a ship or aircraft; embarkation.

As a verb boarding is

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hostel

English

Noun

(wikipedia hostel) (en noun)
  • A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel
  • (not US) A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food
  • (obsolete) A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
  • (Holinshed)

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * hosteler, hosteller * hostelry

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    boarding

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • the act of people getting aboard a ship or aircraft; embarkation
  • * 2000 , Peter Gregory Furth, Data Analysis for Bus Planning and Monitoring (page 24)
  • Load profiles are a standard analysis tool showing passenger activity (boardings , alightings) and passenger load at each stop along a route in a single direction.
  • the act of a sailor or boarding party attacking an enemy ship
  • a structure made of boards
  • riding a skateboard
  • (ice hockey) a penalty called for pushing into the boards
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