boarding house vs lodging

boarding house

noun
  • A private house in which paying residents are provided with accommodation and meals. 

  • A boarding school building where boarders live during term time. 

lodging

noun
  • Furnished rooms in a house rented as accommodation. 

  • A place to live or lodge. 

  • The condition of a plant, especially a cereal, that has been flattened in the field or damaged so that it cannot stand upright, as by weather conditions or because the stem is not strong enough to support the plant. 

  • Sleeping accommodation. 

How often have the words boarding house and lodging occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )