lodging
Americannoun
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accommodation in a house, especially in rooms for rent.
to furnish board and lodging.
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a temporary place to stay; temporary quarters.
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lodgings,
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a room or rooms rented for residence in another's house.
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British. the rooms of a university student who lives neither on campus nor at home.
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the act of lodging.
noun
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a temporary residence
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(sometimes plural) sleeping accommodation
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(sometimes plural) (at Oxford University) the residence of the head of a college
Other Word Forms
- underlodging noun
Etymology
Origin of lodging
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at lodge, -ing 1
Explanation
Lodging is a name for the place you stay when you're not at home. Your lodging could be a luxury hotel, a yurt in the woods, or a college dormitory. Your accommodations while traveling, going away to school, being an exchange student, or doing temporary work are all called lodging or lodgings. A room in a hotel is one kind of lodging, and a sleeping bag on the floor of a tent is another kind. Lodging comes from lodge and its earlier form, loggen, "to set up camp," from the Old French root loge, "hut or cabin."
Example Sentences
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And there probably will be fewer business trips in our future given the rising cost of airfare, lodging and gasoline.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Once the program’s hotels, motels and other temporary lodging are factored in, about 55% were in some form of housing.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026
Neither was there any reporting on whether the congressional delegation was lodging at either of Trump’s two resorts in Scotland.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026
The group told BBC Sport that it had received "a lot of emails from supporters" lodging complaints.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
He thanked Singer several times for the night’s lodging, moving his lips carefully so that he was sure to be understood.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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