What does "lodge" mean?
A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
Lodge
/lɒd͡ʒ/ name, noun, verb
name, noun, verb ·Very common ·Middle school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
- Grammar: lodge is listed as name, noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: inn, abide, abide, accept.
- Useful contrasts: depart, dismiss, evacuate.
- Usage evidence: They will lodge by twos and threes in lonely farmhouses.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
- 2 a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers wordnet
- 3 Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
"[H]e walked across Hawthorn Tree Court on his way to the porter's lodge. […] At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole."
- 4 any of various Native American dwellings wordnet
- 5 A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
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- 6 a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter wordnet
- 7 A local chapter of a trade union. US
- 8 small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener wordnet
- 9 A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
- 10 a formal association of people with similar interests wordnet
- 11 A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
- 12 A den or cave.
- 13 The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
- 14 The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
- 15 A collection of objects lodged together.
"the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands"
- 16 An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
- 17 An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.; A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons. historical
"The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals."
Verb
- 1 To be firmly fixed in a specified position. intransitive
"The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree."
- 2 file a formal charge against wordnet
- 3 To firmly fix in a specified position. transitive
"I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth."
- 4 put, fix, force, or implant wordnet
- 5 To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady. intransitive
"The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street."
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- 6 provide housing for wordnet
- 7 To stay in any place or shelter. intransitive
"Stay and lodge by me this night."
- 8 be a lodger; stay temporarily wordnet
- 9 To drive (an animal) to covert. transitive
"This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set. When you find and rouse up the stag and buck, they are said to be imprimed: […]"
- 10 To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time. transitive
- 11 To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety. transitive
- 12 To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.). transitive
"to lodge a complaint"
- 13 To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind. intransitive
"The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge."
- 14 To cause to flatten, as grass or grain. transitive
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname. countable, uncountable
- 2 A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Sangamon Township, Piatt County, Illinois. countable, uncountable
- 3 A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in the western part of Lorance Township, Bollinger County, Missouri. countable, uncountable
- 4 A place in the United States:; A town in Colleton County, South Carolina. countable, uncountable
- 5 A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia. countable, uncountable
Example
"They will lodge by twos and threes in lonely farmhouses."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "lodge"?
Common synonyms include: inn, abide, abide, accept, accommodate, accommodate.
How do you use "lodge" in a sentence?
They will lodge by twos and threes in lonely farmhouses.
How do you pronounce "lodge"?
Pronounced /lɒd͡ʒ/.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-der.? Proto-Germanic *laubą Frankish *laub Proto-Germanic *-jô Frankish *-jō Frankish *laubijābor. Early Medieval Latin laubiader. Old French logebor. Middle English logge English lodge From Middle English logge, from Old French loge (“arbour, covered walk-way”). See also Medieval Latin lobia, laubia; also Old High German louba (“porch, gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), Old English lēaf (“leaf, foliage”). Doublet of loggia and lobby.