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Lodge   /lɑdʒ/   Listen
Lodge

noun
1.
English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940).  Synonyms: Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Sir Oliver Lodge.
2.
A formal association of people with similar interests.  Synonyms: club, gild, guild, order, social club, society.  "They formed a small lunch society" , "Men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"
3.
Small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener.
4.
A small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter.  Synonym: hunting lodge.
5.
Any of various Native American dwellings.  Synonym: indian lodge.
6.
A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers.  Synonyms: auberge, hostel, hostelry, inn.
verb
(past & past part. lodged; pres. part. lodging)
1.
Be a lodger; stay temporarily.
2.
Put, fix, force, or implant.  Synonyms: deposit, stick, wedge.  "Stick your thumb in the crack"  Antonym: dislodge.
3.
File a formal charge against.  Synonyms: charge, file.
4.
Provide housing for.  Synonym: accommodate.



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"Lodge" Quotes from Famous Books



... passed by, he was told. Looked as if bound for Cheyenne. "No," Cutler said, "he's known there"; and he went on, watching Toussaint's tracks. Within ten miles they veered away from Cheyenne to the southeast, and Cutler struck out on a trail of his own more freely. By midnight he was on Lodge-Pole Creek, sleeping sound among the last trees that he would pass. He slept twelve hours, having gone to bed knowing he must not come into town by daylight. About nine o'clock he arrived, and ...
— The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories • Owen Wister
... can't you have the kindness to take me in? I cannot endure going to a public house to lodge; and I am so lonely. Please, Jude, ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... missed. In another second, every sleeper in the house and in the gate-lodge would be out of bed. His night's work was a ...
— Further Adventures of Lad • Albert Payson Terhune
... tea are due the establishment of that unique English institution, the London Coffee House. Inns, where quests were expected to lodge as well as eat; restaurants, in which men tarried only for a single meal; and Beer and Spirit shops, abounded in London; but the Coffee House ushered in a new era, and actually changed the daily habits of a large majority of representative ...
— Tea Leaves • Francis Leggett & Co.
... of whom staid in the room to watch the drove, and the other two slept in an adjoining room. Each of the latter took a female from the drove to lodge with him, as is the common practice of the drivers generally. There is no doubt about this particular instance, for they were seen together. The mud was so thick on the floor where this drove slept, that it was necessary ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society


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