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LODGE
hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge, auberge
(noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
lodge, indian lodge
(noun) any of various Native American dwellings
lodge, hunting lodge
(noun) a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter
lodge
(noun) small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener
club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order
(noun) a formal association of people with similar interests; “he joined a golf club”; “they formed a small lunch society”; “men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today”
Lodge, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge
(noun) English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940)
charge, lodge, file
(verb) file a formal charge against; “The suspect was charged with murdering his wife”
lodge, wedge, stick, deposit
(verb) put, fix, force, or implant; “lodge a bullet in the table”; “stick your thumb in the crack”
lodge, accommodate
(verb) provide housing for; “We are lodging three foreign students this semester”
lodge
(verb) be a lodger; stay temporarily; “Where are you lodging in Paris?”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Lodge (countable and uncountable, plural Lodges)
A surname.
An unincorporated community in Sangamon Township, Piatt County, Illinois, United States.
An unincorporated community in the western part of Lorance Township, Bollinger County, Missouri, United States.
A town in Colleton County, South Carolina, United States.
An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia, United States.
Anagrams
• Le God, e-gold, glode, golde, ogled
Etymology
Noun
lodge (plural lodges)
A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
Short for porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
(US) 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.
(mining) 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.
An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
(historic) 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.
Verb
lodge (third-person singular simple present lodges, present participle lodging, simple past and past participle lodged)
(intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
(intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
(intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
(transitive) To drive (an animal) to covert.
(transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
(transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
(transitive) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
(intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
(transitive) To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
Synonyms
• (to stay in any place or shelter): stay over, stop; See also sojourn
Anagrams
• Le God, e-gold, glode, golde, ogled
Source: Wiktionary
Lodge, n. Etym: [OE. loge, logge, F. loge, LL. laubia porch, gallery, fr. OHG. louba, G. laube, arbor, bower, fr. lab foliage. See Leaf, and cf. Lobby, Loggia.]
1. A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge. Chaucer. Their lodges and their tentis up they gan bigge [to build]. Robert of Brunne. O for a lodge in some vast wilderness! Cowper.
(b) A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate. Shak. (c) A den or cave. (d) The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge. (c) The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
2. (Mining)
Definition: The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also platt. Raymond.
3. A collection of objects lodged together. The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands. De Foe.
4. A family of North American Indians, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge, -- as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons; as, the tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals. Lodge gate, a park gate, or entrance gate, near the lodge. See Lodge, n., 1 (b).
Lodge, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lodged; p. pr. & vb. n. Lodging.]
1. To rest or remain a lodge house, or other shelter; to rest; to stay; to abide; esp., to sleep at night; as, to lodge in York Street. Chaucer. Stay and lodge by me this night. Shak. Something holy lodges in that breast. Milton .
2. To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind. Mortimer.
3. To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree.
Lodge, v. t. Etym: [OE. loggen, OF. logier, F. loger. See Lodge, n. ]
1. To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold. Every house was proud to lodge a knight. Dryden. The memory can lodge a greater stone of images that all the senses can present at one time. Cheyne.
2. To drive to shelter; to track to covert. The deer is lodged; I have tracked her to her covert. Addison.
3. To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal.
4. To cause to stop or rest in; to implant. He lodged an arrow in a tender breast. Addison.
5. To lay down; to prostrate. Though bladed corn be lodged, and trees blown down. Shak. To lodge an information, to enter a formal complaint.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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