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lodge¹
- /lɒd͡ʒ/ UK
- /lɑd͡ʒ/ US
Rhymes with -ɒdʒ
Where it comes from
From Middle English logge, from Old French loge (“an arbour, a covered walk-way”).
See also Medieval Latin lobia, laubia; also Old High German louba (“a porch, a gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), Old English lēaf (“leaf, foliage”). Doublet of loggia and lobby.
noun lodges
- A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
- Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom. [H]e walked across Hawthorn Tree Court on his way to the porter's lodge. […] At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole.
- A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
- A local chapter of a trade union.
- A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
- A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
- A den or cave.
- The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
- 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.
- A collection of objects lodged together. the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands
- A Native American home, such as teepee or wigwam. "In my lodge there is only one woman."
- 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. The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals.
verb lodges · lodging · lodged
- To be firmly fixed in a specified position. The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree.
- To firmly fix in a specified position. I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.
- To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady. The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street.
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To stay in any place or shelter.
Stay and lodge by me this night.
Similar: stay over, stop, keep, lodge, quarter, sleep over, sojourn, stay, stop off, stop over, tarry
- To drive (an animal) to covert. 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, an
- To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
- To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
- To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.). to lodge a complaint
- To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind. The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge.
- To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
Lodge²
proper noun Lodges
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Sangamon Township, Piatt County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in the western part of Lorance Township, Bollinger County, Missouri.
- A town in Colleton County, South Carolina.
- An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: hostelry, inn, hunting lodge, hostel, wedge, club, guild, order, gild, charge, society, accommodate, file, deposit, stick, indian lodge
Translations
Every language
noun local chapter of freemasons
| Español | logia |
|---|---|
| Português | loja |
| Français | loge |
| Deutsch | Loge |
| Italiano | loggia |
| Română | lojă |
| Русский | ло́жа lóža |
noun recreational building
| Português | cabana |
|---|---|
| Français | cabane |
| Deutsch | Lodge |
| Italiano | casino |
| Română | cabană |
| Русский | до́мик dómik |
noun porter's rooms
| Español | caseta |
|---|---|
| Français | maison du portier |
| Deutsch | Loge |
| Italiano | guardiola, portineria |
| Română | cabină, gheretă, lojă |
| Русский | сторо́жка storóžka, до́мик dómik, бу́дка búdka |
noun local chapter of trade union
| Español | logia |
|---|
verb to be firmly fixed in a specified position
| Español | meterse |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 卡住 qiǎzhù |
| Português | emperrar, alojar |
| Deutsch | feststecken, festklemmen |
| Русский | застрева́ть zastrevátʹ, застря́ть zastrjátʹ |
| العربية | غَلِقَ ḡaliqa |
verb to stay in a boarding-house
| Español | meter |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 묵다 mukda |
| 日本語 | 泊まる tomaru, 宿泊 shukuhaku |
| 中文 | 寄宿 jìsù |
| Русский | квартирова́ться kvartirovátʹsja, остава́ться ostavátʹsja, оста́ться ostátʹsja, остана́вливаться ostanávlivatʹsja, останови́ться ostanovítʹsja |
verb to stay in any place or shelter
| 한국어 | 숙박하다 sukbakhada |
|---|---|
| Français | loger, demeurer |
| Deutsch | logieren |
| עברית | לָן lan |
verb to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time
| Español | alojar, albergar |
|---|---|
| Português | acolher |
| Italiano | alloggiare |
| עברית | הֵלִין helín |
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