Hostel vs Boardinghouse - What's the difference?
hostel | boardinghouse |
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.
As nouns the difference between hostel and boardinghouse
is that hostel is a commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel while boardinghouse is an alternative spelling of lang=en.hostel
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(wikipedia hostel) (en noun)- (Holinshed)