/lɒd͡ʒ/, /lɑd͡ʒ/
- A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
- abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsisEllipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
“[H]e walked across Hawthorn Tree Court on his way to the porter's lodge. […] At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole.”
- A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
- USA 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.
“the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands”
- An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
- historicalA 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.”
- intransitiveTo be firmly fixed in a specified position.
“The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree.”
- transitiveTo firmly fix in a specified position.
“I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.”
- intransitiveTo stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
“The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street.”
- intransitiveTo stay in any place or shelter.
“Stay and lodge by me this night.”
“Something holy lodges in that breast.” — Comus
“It then becomes necessary for the men to lodge away from home, and at places on the system where large numbers require accommodation regularly, the L.M.S.R. maintains 43 permanent staff hostels.”
- transitiveTo drive (an animal) to covert.
“This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the ”
- transitiveTo supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
- transitiveTo put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
- transitiveTo place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
“to lodge a complaint”
“He [Harry Maguire] maintains his innocence and has lodged an appeal—which means a retrial and the conviction being set aside in the meantime—[…].”
“MPs have moved to lodge a parliamentary motion to strip Prince Andrew of his dukedom, in a rarely permitted move in the Commons. […] On Tuesday, the SNP lodged an early-day motion (EDM) to formally re”
- intransitiveTo become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
“The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge.”
- transitiveTo cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
- countable, uncountableA surname.
- countable, uncountableAn unincorporated community in Sangamon Township, Piatt County, Illinois.
- countable, uncountableAn unincorporated community in the western part of Lorance Township, Bollinger County, Missouri.
- countable, uncountableA town in Colleton County, South Carolina.
- countable, uncountableAn unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia.
Formslodges(plural) · lodges(present, singular, third-person) · lodging(participle, present) · lodged(participle, past) · lodged(past) · Lodges(plural)