lodge
1 Americannoun
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a small, makeshift or crude shelter or habitation, as of boughs, poles, skins, earth, or rough boards; cabin or hut.
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a house used as a temporary residence, as in the hunting season.
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a summer cottage.
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a house or cottage, as in a park or on an estate, occupied by a gatekeeper, caretaker, gardener, or other employee.
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a resort hotel, motel, or inn.
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the main building of a camp, resort hotel, or the like.
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the meeting place of a branch of certain fraternal organizations.
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the members composing the branch.
The lodge is planning a picnic.
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- society, association, club
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any of various North American Indian dwellings, as a teepee or long house.
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the Indians who live in such a dwelling or a family or unit of North American Indians.
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the home of a college head at Cambridge University, England.
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the den of an animal or group of animals, especially beavers.
verb (used without object)
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to have a habitation or quarters, especially temporarily, as in a hotel, motel, or inn.
We lodged in a guest house.
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to live in rented quarters in another's house.
He lodged with a local family during his college days.
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to be fixed, implanted, or caught in a place or position; come to rest; stick.
The bullet lodged in his leg.
verb (used with object)
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to furnish with a habitation or quarters, especially temporarily; accommodate.
Can you lodge us for the night?
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to furnish with a room or rooms in one's house for payment; have as a lodger.
a boardinghouse that lodges oil workers.
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to serve as a residence, shelter, or dwelling for; shelter.
The château will lodge the ambassador during his stay.
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to put, store, or deposit, as in a place, for storage or keeping; stow.
to lodge one's valuables in a hotel safe.
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to bring or send into a particular place or position.
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to house or contain.
The spinal canal lodges and protects the spinal cord.
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to vest (power, authority, etc.).
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to put or bring (information, a complaint, etc.) before a court or other authority.
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to beat down or lay flat, as vegetation in a storm.
A sudden hail had lodged the crops.
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to track (a deer) to its lair.
noun
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Henry Cabot, 1850–1924, U.S. public servant and author: senator 1893–1924.
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his grandson Henry Cabot, Jr., 1902–85, U.S. journalist, statesman, and diplomat.
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Sir Oliver Joseph, 1851–1940, English physicist and writer.
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Thomas, 1558?–1625, English poet and dramatist.
noun
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a small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion, usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener
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a house or cabin used occasionally, as for some seasonal activity
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a central building in a resort, camp, or park
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(capital when part of a name) a large house or hotel
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a room for the use of porters in a university, college, etc
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a local branch or chapter of certain societies
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the building used as the meeting place of such a society
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the dwelling place of certain animals, esp the dome-shaped den constructed by beavers
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a hut or tent of certain North American Indian peoples
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(at Cambridge University) the residence of the head of a college
verb
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to provide or be provided with accommodation or shelter, esp rented accommodation
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(intr) to live temporarily, esp in rented accommodation
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to implant, embed, or fix or be implanted, embedded, or fixed
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(tr) to deposit or leave for safety, storage, etc
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(tr) to bring (a charge or accusation) against someone
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(tr; often foll by in or with) to place (authority, power, etc) in the control (of someone)
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archaic to exist or be present (in)
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(tr) (of wind, rain, etc) to beat down (crops)
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David ( John ). born 1935, British novelist and critic. His books include Changing Places (1975), Small World (1984), Nice Work (1988), Therapy (1995), and Thinks... (2001)
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Sir Oliver ( Joseph ). 1851–1940, British physicist, who made important contributions to electromagnetism, radio reception, and attempted to detect the ether. He also studied allegedly psychic phenomena
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Thomas. ?1558–1625, English writer. His romance Rosalynde (1590) supplied the plot for Shakespeare's As You Like It
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Other Word Forms
- lodgeable adjective
Etymology
Origin of lodge
1175–1225; Middle English logge < Old French loge < Medieval Latin laubia, lobia; lobby
Example Sentences
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“And I don’t know why it’s still like that. I don’t. You know, you can lodge formal complaints. A lot of times you don’t see any change when you lodge a formal complaint.”
From Los Angeles Times
At World’s Stage you can see local acts with a Black crowd but fewer out-of-town groups are invited because it’s exceedingly expensive to fly a band out and lodge them for days for shows.
From Los Angeles Times
That’s where she’s been on the mend since early March, when she arrived with a hook lodged in her throat and a flipper that was mostly dead from fishing line that had choked off circulation.
From Los Angeles Times
The property spawned the boutique lodging industry and grew into a portfolio of more than a dozen hotels before Schrager sold his stake in the mid-2000s.
"We understand that following our lodging of a petition for judicial review that the captain and his deputy may have been removed from the ship along with 26 other crew members of various nationalities."
From BBC
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