A girl who lives at home but attends a school where other pupils board.
Example sentencesExamples
- They now have accommodation for 40 boarders and nine day girls.
- Sophie became a day girl at the £1400-a-term Kent College for Girls in Pembury, where she also enjoyed riding, ballet and amateur dramatics.
- I much prefer boarding to being a day girl, though I miss the way you can go home and watch TV in your own time.
- One is a boarding scholarship and the other is for a day girl.