lodge
/lɔdʤ/
Definition
Noun:
- A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers: A building or establishment where travelers can pay for a room to stay overnight, often in a rural or recreational setting.
- Any of various Native American dwellings: A traditional, often dome-shaped, house built by certain Native American peoples.
- A small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter: A simple, often small, house in a rural area, used for temporary accommodation.
- Small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener: A cottage at the gate of a large estate, serving as a residence for an employee.
- A formal association of people with similar interests: A local branch or chapter of a society or club.
Verb:
- Provide housing for: To provide someone with a place to live, often temporarily.
- File a formal charge against: To formally submit an accusation or complaint to an authority.
- Put, fix, force, or implant: To cause something to become firmly stuck or embedded in a place.
- Be a lodger; stay temporarily: To live in a place temporarily, typically paying rent.
Examples of Usage
Noun:
- We stayed at a cozy ski lodge in the mountains.
- The museum had a replica of a traditional Iroquois lodge.
- The hunters built a small lodge for shelter.
- The estate's lodge is where the groundskeeper lives.
- He is a member of the local Masonic lodge.
Verb:
- The university agreed to lodge the visiting scholars.
- The victim decided to lodge a complaint with the police.
- The impact lodged a piece of shrapnel in the wall.
- Where will you lodge during your visit to the city?
Advanced Usage
"to lodge an appeal/protest": To formally submit an appeal or protest to an official body.
- The lawyer will lodge an appeal against the court's decision.
"to lodge in one's memory/mind": To become firmly fixed in one's thoughts.
- That haunting image lodged in my memory.
Variants and Related Words
Lodging (n): Temporary accommodation.
- He found cheap lodging near the university.
Lodger (n): A person who rents a room in another's house; a tenant.
- She takes in lodgers to supplement her income.
Dislodge (v): To remove or force out from a position.
- He tried to dislodge the stone from the crevice.
Synonyms
- Noun (building): Inn, hostel, cottage, cabin.
- Verb (to provide housing): Accommodate, house, board.
- Verb (to file a charge): Submit, register, file.
- Verb (to become stuck): Embed, wedge, stick.
Related Phrasal Verbs
Lodge against: To formally make a complaint or accusation targeting someone.
- Formal charges were lodged against the company.
Lodge with:
- To stay temporarily at a particular place.
- I am lodging with a family in London.
- To formally submit a document to a person or authority.
- Please lodge your application with the secretary.
Related Idioms
Lodge a bullet: (Literal) For a bullet to become embedded in something.
- The bullet lodged in the tree trunk.
To have a lodge in one's bosom (archaic/literary): To harbor a secret enemy or a deep-seated grudge.
- He smiled, but he had a lodge in his bosom.
Noun
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a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
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any of various Native American dwellings
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a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter
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small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener
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a formal association of people with similar interests
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he joined a golf club
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they formed a small lunch society
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men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today
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English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940)
Verb
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provide housing for
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We are lodging three foreign students this semester
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file a formal charge against
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The suspect was charged with murdering his wife
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put, fix, force, or implant
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lodge a bullet in the table
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stick your thumb in the crack
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be a lodger; stay temporarily
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Where are you lodging in Paris?
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