English Explanatory Dictionary

lodge

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
  2. Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
  3. A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
  4. A local chapter of a trade union.
  5. A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
  6. A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
  7. A den or cave.
  8. The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
  9. 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.
  10. A collection of objects lodged together.
  11. A Native American home, such as tipi or wigwam.
  12. The people who live in one such home; a household.
verb
  1. To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
  2. To firmly fix in a specified position.
  3. To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
  4. To stay in any place or shelter.
  5. To drive (an animal) to covert.
  6. To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
  7. To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
  8. To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
  9. To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
  10. To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A place in the United States:
  3. An unincorporated community in Sangamon Township, Piatt County, Illinois.
  4. An unincorporated community in the western part of Lorance Township, Bollinger County, Missouri.
  5. A town in Colleton County, South Carolina.
  6. An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia.

Pronunciation

/lɒd͡ʒ/ /lɑd͡ʒ/ en-us-lodge.ogg

Word forms

lodge lodges lodging lodged

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-der.? Proto-Germanic *laubą Frankish *laub Proto-Germanic *-jô Frankish *-jō Frankish *laubijābor. Early Medieval Latin laubiader. Old French logebor. Middle English logge English lodge From Middle English logge, from Old French loge (“an arbour, a covered walk-way”). See also Medieval Latin lobia, laubia; also Old High German louba (“a porch, a gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), Old English lēaf (“leaf, foliage”). Doublet of loggia and lobby.

Synonyms

stay over stop keep lodge quarter sleep over sojourn stay stop off stop over tarry

Derived words

Blue Lodge Deer Lodge Flodge grand lodge healing lodge hunting lodge juggler lodge Keilor Lodge lodgeful lodgehouse lodgekeeper lodge pole lodgepole medicine lodge motor lodge plodge porter's lodge Red Lodge seclusion lodge ski lodge sweat lodge lodgement lodger lodge solemn representation lodging mislodge relodge unlodge

Translations

Bulgarian: ло́жа Catalan: lògia Czech: lóže Dutch: loge Esperanto: loĝio Finnish: loosi French: loge Galician: loxa German: Loge Hungarian: páholy Italian: loggia Macedonian: ло́жа Occitan: lòtja Persian: لژ Portuguese: loja Romanian: lojă Russian: ло́жа Spanish: logia Swedish: loge Tagalog: lohiya Ottoman Turkish: لوجه
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