Lodge
[lɒdʒ] or [lɑdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) any of various Native American dwellings.
(noun.) a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter.
(noun.) small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener.
(noun.) English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940).
(verb.) put, fix, force, or implant; 'lodge a bullet in the table'; 'stick your thumb in the crack'.
(verb.) provide housing for; 'We are lodging three foreign students this semester'.
(verb.) be a lodger; stay temporarily; 'Where are you lodging in Paris?'.
Edited by Kitty--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge.
(n.) A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate.
(n.) A den or cave.
(n.) The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.
(n.) The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A collection of objects lodged together.
(n.) 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.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
(v. i.) To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree.
(n.) To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold.
(n.) To drive to shelter; to track to covert.
(n.) To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal.
(n.) To cause to stop or rest in; to implant.
(n.) To lay down; to prostrate.
Edited by Abraham
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Cottage, cot, small house.[2]. Den, lair, haunt.[3]. Association (as of freemasons), secret society.[4]. Collection, group.
v. a. [1]. Place, put, deposit.[2]. Plant, infix, fix.[3]. Harbor, quarter, provide lodging for.[4]. Lay flat, beat down.
v. n. [1]. Inhabit (for a season), dwell, live, reside, abide.[2]. Sojourn, tarry, rest, STOP, take up one's quarters, pitch one's tent, put up, take lodgings, have lodgings.
Typed by Gladys
Synonyms and Antonyms
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Typed by Anatole
Definition
n. a small house in a park: a hut: the cottage of a gatekeeper: a retreat: a secret association also the place of meeting.—v.t. to furnish with a temporary dwelling: place deposit: to infix to settle: to drive to covert: to lay flat as grain.—v.i. to reside: to rest: to dwell for a time: to pass the night: to lie flat as grain.—ns. Lodg′er one who lodges or lives at board or in a hired room; Lodg′ing temporary habitation: a room or rooms hired in the house of another (often in pl.): harbour; Lodg′ing-house a house where lodgings are let a house other than a hotel where travellers lodge; Lodg′ment act of lodging or state of being lodged: accumulation of something that remains at rest: (mil.) the occupation of a position by a besieging party and the works thrown up to maintain it.—Lodger franchise a right to vote conferred on persons occupying lodgings.—Grand Lodge the principal lodge of Freemasons presided over by the Grand-master.
Editor: Thea
Examples
- I soon found Briony Lodge. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was a smart little landau which rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Most of the tramping tinkers used to come and lodge at our place; that was the best part of my master's earnings. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Tesla in the United States, Branly and Ducretet in France, Righi in Italy, the Russian savant, Popoff, and Professor Lodge, of England, have all made contributions to this art. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Stone Lodge was situated on a moor within a mile or two of a great town—called Coketown in the present faithful guide-book. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- They found Winifred at the lodge admiring the litter of purebred white puppies. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I only wish the machines--the frames--were safe here, and lodged within the walls of this mill. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A nervous fever was the consequence; during which he was nursed by the daughter of a poor cottager, under whose roof he lodged. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I had scarcely left when a musket ball entered the room, struck the head of the sofa, passed through it and lodged in the foot. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A widow lady kept the house; she had a daughter, and a maidservant, and a journeyman who attended the warehouse, but lodged abroad. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Thus lodged, I was not, at least--at the commencement of the night, cold. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Emmy also came off with her Lares--her two pictures--and the party, finally, were, lodged in an exceedingly dear and uncomfortable house at Ostend. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In regard of the other Miss Dorrit, the nondescript lodged in the same house with herself and uncle. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- We had a temporary lodging in Covent Garden. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He had hired a lodging for the present in Covent Garden, and he took the nearest way to that quarter, by Snow Hill and Holborn. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I was lodging with a comical old widow, who had formerly been my sister Fanny's nurse when she was quite a child. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Do you think he had planned this robbery, when he went with you to the lodging? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Mr. Boythorn leaving us within a week, we took up our abode at a cheerful lodging near Oxford Street over an upholsterer's shop. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And these, with some ordinary London lodging-house furniture of the better sort, completed the whole. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They're wittles and drink to me--lodging, wife, and children--reading, writing, and Arithmetic--snuff, tobacker, and sleep. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Colonel Brandon, I think, lodges in St. James Street, said he, soon afterwards, rising from his chair. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The Transparent reigning family took too to the waters, or retired to their hunting lodges. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In fact, he lodges at a-- Mr. Snagsby makes another bolt, as if the bit of bread and buffer were insurmountable --at a rag and bottle shop. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This was given out, sir, to a writer who lodges just over on the opposite side of the lane. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It is this stock which feeds, clothes, and lodges the people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He lodges it privately (under a general description) in his bankers' strong-room. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Mycroft lodges in Pall Mall, and he walks round the corner into Whitehall every morning and back every evening. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Editor: Spence