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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.
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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, especially beavers.
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verb (used without object)
13.
to have a habitation or quarters, especially 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.

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verb (used with object)
16.
to furnish with a habitation or quarters, especially 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.
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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.
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Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English logge < Old French loge < Medieval Latin laubia, lobia; see lobby

Related forms
lodge·a·ble, adjective

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

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lodge
early 13c., from O.Fr. loge "arbor, covered walk" (Mod.Fr. "hut, cabin, lodge box at a theater"), from Frankish *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
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cabin" sense is first recorded mid-15c. Sense of "local branch of a society" is first recorded 1680s, from 14c. logge "workshop of masons." The verb is early 13c., "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 1610s.
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