Lodge definition
To vest (authority, for example).
verb
To bring (an accusation, complaint, etc.) before legal authorities.
verb
A cottage or cabin, often rustic, used as a temporary abode or shelter.
A ski lodge.
noun
A small house on the grounds of an estate or a park, used by a caretaker or gatekeeper.
noun
An inn.
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Any of various Native American dwellings, such as a hogan, wigwam, or longhouse.
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The group living in such a dwelling.
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A local chapter of certain fraternal organizations.
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The meeting hall of such a chapter.
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The members of such a chapter.
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To serve as a depository for; contain.
This cellar lodges our oldest wines.
verb
To place, leave, or deposit, as for safety.
Documents lodged with a trusted associate.
verb
To fix, force, or implant.
Lodge a bullet in a wall.
verb
To register (a charge or complaint, for example) before an authority, such as a court; file.
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To provide with temporary quarters, especially for sleeping.
Lodges travelers in the shed.
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To rent a room to.
verb
To place or establish in quarters.
Lodged the children with relatives after the fire.
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To be or become embedded.
The ball lodged in the fence.
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To live in a place temporarily.
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To rent accommodations, especially for sleeping.
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The den or typical lair of certain wild animals, esp. beavers.
noun
A small house, esp. one for a servant or one for use during a special season.
A caretaker's lodge, hunting lodge.
noun
A resort hotel or motel.
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The meeting place of a local chapter, as of a fraternal organization.
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Such a local chapter.
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The traditional hut or tent of an American Indian.
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Those living in it.
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The definition of a lodge is a shelter such as a cottage or resort, generally used for vacation purposes.
An example of lodge is where skiers may stay on a skiing trip.
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Lodge is defined as to provide or rent a cottage or resort space, to be stuck or caught, or to store something.
An example of lodge is to stay at a hotel for five nights.
An example of lodge is for a splinter to be stuck in someone's finger.
An example of lodge is put money in a safe.
verb
The den of certain animals, such as the dome-shaped structure built by beavers.
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To rent rooms to; take as a paying guest.
verb
To serve as a temporary dwelling for.
verb
To serve as a container for.
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To place or deposit for safekeeping.
verb
To put or send into a place or position by shooting, thrusting, etc.; place; land.
To lodge an arrow in a target.
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To confer (powers) upon.
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To beat down (growing crops), as rain.
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To live in a certain place for a time.
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To live (with another or in another's home) as a paying guest.
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To come to rest or be placed and remain firmly fixed.
A chicken bone lodged in the cat's throat.
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(person) 1850-1924; U.S. senator (1893-1924)
proper name
A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
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(US) A local chapter of a trade union.
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A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
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(mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
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A collection of objects lodged together.
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A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals.
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(intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
verb
(intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge.
verb
To beat (crops) down flat.
Rye lodged by the cyclone.
verb
To provide with a place of temporary residence; house.
verb
Origin of lodge
- Middle English from Old French loge of Germanic origin
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- 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.
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