Lodge Definition

lŏj

lodged, lodges, lodging

noun

lodges

A cottage or cabin, often rustic, used as a temporary abode or shelter.

A ski lodge.

American Heritage

A small house, esp. one for a servant or one for use during a special season.

A caretaker's lodge, hunting lodge.

Webster's New World

A resort hotel or motel.

Webster's New World

The meeting place of a local chapter, as of a fraternal organization.

Webster's New World

The traditional hut or tent of an American Indian.

Webster's New World

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verb

lodged, lodges, lodging

To provide with a place of temporary residence; house.

Webster's New World

To live (with another or in another's home) as a paying guest.

Webster's New World

To rent rooms to; take as a paying guest.

Webster's New World

To place or establish in quarters.

Lodged the children with relatives after the fire.

American Heritage

To serve as a temporary dwelling for.

Webster's New World

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Other Word Forms of Lodge

Singular:

lodge

Plural:

From Middle English logge, from Old French loge (“arbor, covered walk-way"), Medieval Latin lobia, laubia, from Frankish *laubija (“shelter"), from Proto-Germanic *laubijō (“arbour, protective roof, shelter made of foliage"), from Proto-Germanic *laubÄ… (“leaf"), from Proto-Indo-European *lōubh- (“the outer parts of a tree, bark, foliage"). Cognate with Old High German louba (“porch, gallery") (German Laube (“bower, arbor")), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage"), Old English lÄ“af (“leaf, foliage"). Related to lobby, loggia, leaf.

From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old French loge of Germanic origin

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition