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lodge
/lɑd͡ʒ/
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What does lodge mean?
noun
- A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
- Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
- A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
More meanings (25)
noun
- A local chapter of a trade union.
- A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
- A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
- A den or cave.
- The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
- 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.
- A collection of objects lodged together.
- A Native American home, such as teepee or wigwam.
- The people who live in one such home; a household.
- (historical) 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.
verb
- To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
- To firmly fix in a specified position.
- To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
- To stay in any place or shelter.
- To drive (an animal) to covert.
- To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
- To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
- To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
- To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
- To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
proper noun
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Sangamon Township, Piatt County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in the western part of Lorance Township, Bollinger County, Missouri.
- A town in Colleton County, South Carolina.
- An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia.
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IPA pronunciation
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This would give me a chance to eat and lodge with the lowliest and poorest class of free citizens on equal terms.
The gold was sacked in moose-hide bags, fifty pounds to the bag, and piled like so much firewood outside the spruce-bough lodge.
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But he found his traps waiting for him in the porter’s lodge, and the concierge told him that Blanche had gone out.
Drouet dropped in at the lodge when he went down town, and swashed around with a great air, as Quincel met him.
The boys built an arbor of pine boughs in some out-of-the-way place and at one end of it was a rude lodge.