lodge definition | Dictionary.com

lodge

[loj]

noun, verb, lodged, lodg⋅ing.

–noun

1.	a small, makeshift or crude shelter or habitation, as of boughs, poles, skins, earth, or rough boards; cabin or hut.

2.	a house used as a temporary residence, as in the hunting season.

3.	a summer cottage.

4.	a house or cottage, as in a park or on an estate, occupied by a gatekeeper, caretaker, gardener, or other employee.

5.	a resort hotel, motel, or inn.

6.	the main building of a camp, resort hotel, or the like.

7.	the meeting place of a branch of certain fraternal organizations.

8.	the members composing the branch: The lodge is planning a picnic.

9.	any of various North American Indian dwellings, as a tepee or long house. Compare earth lodge.

10.	the Indians who live in such a dwelling or a family or unit of North American Indians.

11.	the home of a college head at Cambridge University, England.

12.	the den of an animal or group of animals, esp. beavers.

–verb (used without object)

13.	to have a habitation or quarters, esp. temporarily, as in a hotel, motel, or inn: We lodged in a guest house.

14.	to live in rented quarters in another's house: He lodged with a local family during his college days.

15.	to be fixed, implanted, or caught in a place or position; come to rest; stick: The bullet lodged in his leg.

–verb (used with object)

16.	to furnish with a habitation or quarters, esp. temporarily; accommodate: Can you lodge us for the night?

17.	to furnish with a room or rooms in one's house for payment; have as a lodger: a boardinghouse that lodges oil workers.

18.	to serve as a residence, shelter, or dwelling for; shelter: The château will lodge the ambassador during his stay.

19.	to put, store, or deposit, as in a place, for storage or keeping; stow: to lodge one's valuables in a hotel safe.

20.	to bring or send into a particular place or position.

21.	to house or contain: The spinal canal lodges and protects the spinal cord.

22.	to vest (power, authority, etc.).

23.	to put or bring (information, a complaint, etc.) before a court or other authority.

24.	to beat down or lay flat, as vegetation in a storm: A sudden hail had lodged the crops.

25.	to track (a deer) to its lair.

Origin:
1175–1225; ME logge < OF loge < ML laubia, lobia; see lobby

Related forms:

lodge⋅a⋅ble, adjective

Synonyms:
8. club, association, society. 16. house, quarter. 20. place, set, plant, settle.

Accommodation in Brazil
Help so that you will find the break you deserve.

www.braziltour.com

Lodge

[loj]

–noun

1.	Henry Cabot, 1850–1924, U.S. public servant and author: senator 1893–1924.

2.	his grandson, Henry Cabot, Jr., 1902–85, U.S. journalist, statesman, and diplomat.

3.	Sir Oliver Joseph, 1851–1940, English physicist and writer.

4.	Thomas, 1558?–1625, English poet and dramatist.

Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
Cite This Source

Link To lodge

lodge (lŏj)

1. A cottage or cabin, often rustic, used as a temporary abode or shelter: a ski lodge.
2. A small house on the grounds of an estate or a park, used by a caretaker or gatekeeper.
3. An inn.
4. Any of various Native American dwellings, such as a hogan, wigwam, or longhouse.
5. The group living in such a dwelling.
6. A local chapter of certain fraternal organizations.
7. The meeting hall of such a chapter.
8. The members of such a chapter.
1. Any of various Native American dwellings, such as a hogan, wigwam, or longhouse.
2. The group living in such a dwelling.
3. A local chapter of certain fraternal organizations.
4. The meeting hall of such a chapter.
5. The members of such a chapter.
1. A local chapter of certain fraternal organizations.
2. The meeting hall of such a chapter.
3. The members of such a chapter.
The den of certain animals, such as the dome-shaped structure built by beavers.

v. lodged, lodg·ing, lodg·es

v. tr.

1. To provide with temporary quarters, especially for sleeping: lodges travelers in the shed.
2. To rent a room to.
3. To place or establish in quarters: lodged the children with relatives after the fire.
To serve as a depository for; contain: This cellar lodges our oldest wines.
To place, leave, or deposit, as for safety: documents lodged with a trusted associate.
To fix, force, or implant: lodge a bullet in a wall.
To register (a charge or complaint, for example) before an authority, such as a court; file.
To vest (authority, for example).
To beat (crops) down flat: rye lodged by the cyclone.

v. intr.

1. To live in a place temporarily.
2. To rent accommodations, especially for sleeping.
To be or become embedded: The ball lodged in the fence.

[Middle English, from Old French loge, of Germanic origin.]

Lodge (lŏj)

American politician. As Senate majority leader (1918-1924) and head of the foreign relations committee (1918-1924) he successfully opposed United States membership in the League of Nations.

Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr. 1902-1985.
American politician and diplomat. He was Richard Nixon's running mate in the 1960 presidential election and later served as ambassador to South Vietnam (1963-1967).

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source

Lodge

Lodge\, n. [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) 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

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

Lodge\, v. t. [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.

Language Translation for : lodge

Spanish: casita, refugio,

German: das Häuschen,

Japanese: 小屋

More Translations »

lodge (n.)

1231, from O.Fr. loge "arbor, covered walk" (Mod.Fr. "hut, cabin, lodge box at a theater"), from Frank. *laubja "shelter" (cognate with O.H.G. louba "porch, gallery," Ger. Laube "bower, arbor"), likely originally "shelter of foliage," from the root of leaf. "Hunter's cabin" sense is first recorded 1465. Sense of "local branch of a society" is first recorded 1686, from 14c. logge "workshop of masons." The verb is c.1225, "to stay in a lodge, to put someone up in a lodge," from O.Fr. logier, from loge. Sense of "to get a thing in the intended place, to make something stick" is from 1611.

Lodge

a shed for a watchman in a garden (Isa. 1:8). The Hebrew name _melunah_ is rendered "cottage" (q.v.) in Isa. 24:20. It also denotes a hammock or hanging-bed.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Cite This Source

Search another word or see lodge on Thesaurus | Reference

Mapungubwe Accommodation
Luxury lodge located at Mapungubwe National Park
www.mopanebushlodge.co.za

Kloofzicht Lodge 5*
Big Savings on accommodation this season@Kloofzicht 5*Lodge

www.africanseasons.co.za/

About · Privacy Policy · Terms of Use · Advertise with Us · Link to Us · NASCAR® · Contact Us