1.
[syn: lodger, boarder, roomer]
2. someone who forces their way aboard ship;
- Example: "stand by to repel boarders"
3. a pupil who lives at school during term time;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Naut.) One who boards a ship; one selected to board an
enemy's ship. --Totten.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
boarder
n 1: a tenant in someone's house [syn: lodger, boarder,
roomer]
2: someone who forces their way aboard ship; "stand by to repel
boarders"
3: a pupil who lives at school during term time
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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