Room and board

Room and board describes an accommodation which, in exchange for money, labour or other recompense, a person is provided with a place to live in addition to meals. It commonly occurs as a fee at higher educational institutions, such as colleges and universities; it also occurs in hotel-style accommodation for short stays.

• Room refers to a bedroom provided, sometimes private and occasionally with an en suite bathroom.
• Board refers to food being provided; the use of this term may derive from the Old English bord, meaning table.^[1]

Two commonly encountered boards are:

• Half board, where the host provides only breakfast and dinner (or less commonly, breakfast and lunch).
• Full board, where the host provides three daily meals.

Another option is:

• Bed and breakfast, literally, a place to sleep and where breakfast is provided.

• Bistro, a type of informal French restaurant
• Boarding house, a lodging establishment
• Boarding school
• Parlour boarder, an archaic term for a category of pupil at boarding school
• Sideboard, an article of furniture from which food is served in a dining room

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