boarding
Speech parts
1. boarding - Noun
2. boarding - Verb
Meaning
of Board
The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose.
The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards.
The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay.
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I can't remember a time when I didn't love fashion. As a child, I was always particular about what I'd wear. I remember feeling most aggrieved that I had to put on a dull uniform to go to boarding school.
The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.
My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.
Travel by air is not travel at all, but simply a change of location; so my wife and daughter and I went to San Francisco by train, leaving Boston on a Wednesday morning in June and, then after lunch in New York, boarding Amtrak's Broadway to Chicago.
I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
Her voice was completely English. For some reason I had expected a foreign accent; but I could place this exactly. It was my own; product of boarding school, university, the accent of what a sociologist once called the Dominant Hundred Thousand.