Lodging
['lɒdʒɪŋ] or ['lɑdʒɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lodge
(n.) The act of one who, or that which, lodges.
(n.) A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning.
(n.) Abiding place; harbor; cover.
Edited by Greg
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Place of rest, apartment for sleeping.[2]. Habitation (for a season), abode, residence, dwelling quarters, dwelling-place, place of residence, headquarters.
Checker: Melanie
Examples
- 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.
- Every night, Sissy went to Rachael's lodging, and sat with her in her small neat room. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He got into trouble last night, sir; but he'll look for me at the lodging-house. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I could not hope to get a lodging under a roof, and sought it in the wood I have before alluded to. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Therefore I want to get him, for the present moment, into any poor lodging kept by decent people where he would be admitted. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I can pay for my bread and cheese, and my nice little lodging, and my two coats a year. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Have you money for your lodging? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She said it to Sissy, as they sat in her lodging, lighted only by the lamp at the street corner. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- She said that her father had spoken of hiring a lodging for a short term, in that Quarter, near the Banking-house. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- After waiting some time Mrs. Clements became alarmed, and ordered the cabman to drive back to her lodgings. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Hundreds of People The quiet lodgings of Doctor Manette were in a quiet street-corner not far from Soho-square. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- At the old lodgings it was understood that he was summoned to Dover, and, in fact, he was taken down the Dover road and cornered out of it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Her lodgings were hard by; and they threaded through the crowd without, where everything seemed to be more astir than even in the ball-room within. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I shall go to Paris in my own carriage, and establish myself in my own lodgings, said I; and to this proposition Meyler was obliged to agree. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I was breakfasting at the Ellisons,and her letter, with some others, was brought to me there from my lodgings. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- It consisted simply in the hiring of quiet lodgings at Brompton, or in the neighbourhood of the barracks, for Captain and Mrs. Crawley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Got any lodgings? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- We carefully examined every house we passed for a bill indicative of lodgings to let; but in vain. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Blessed if I don't think that ven a man's wery poor, he rushes out of his lodgings, and eats oysters in reg'lar desperation. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There I saw the empress and the young princes, in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- You must know, said he, that I am an orphan and a bachelor, residing alone in lodgings in London. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- We had not driven very far from our lodgings when we stopped in a by-street at a public-looking place lighted up with gas. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She gave her evidence in the gamest way, and was highly complimented by the Bench, and cheered right home to her lodgings. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And with this she passed on, and speedily found her way to Mrs. Osborne's lodgings. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Editor: Woodrow