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lodge

UK/lɒd͡ʒ//lɑd͡ʒ/

lodge noun: a building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin. Also the ellipsis of porter's lodge.

Noun

lodge (plural lodges)

  1. A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
  2. A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
  3. (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
  4. A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
  5. A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
  6. A den or cave.
  7. The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
  8. 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.
  9. A collection of objects lodged together.
    • the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands1720, [Daniel Defoe], The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton, London: […] J[ohn] Brotherton, […], J[ohn] Graves […], A[nne] Dodd, […], and T[homas] Warner, […], →OCLC
  10. A Native American home, such as teepee or wigwam.
    • "In my lodge there is only one woman."1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, Flame on the Frontier; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 28
    1. (broadly) The people who live in one such home; a household.
    2. (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.
      • The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals.

Verb

lodge (third-person singular simple present lodges, present participle lodging, simple past and past participle lodged)

  1. (intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
    • The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree.
  2. (transitive) To firmly fix in a specified position.
    • I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.
  3. (intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
    • The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street.
  4. (intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
    • Stay and lodge by me this night.c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
    • Something holy lodges in that breast.1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey...
  5. (transitive) To 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 buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed...1819, John Mayer, The Sportsman's Directory, or Park and Gamekeeper's Companion
  6. (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
  7. (transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
  8. (transitive) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
    • to lodge a complaint
    • Powers that are lodged with the cabinet.
  9. (intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
    • The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge.
  10. (transitive) To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.

Proper noun capitalized: Lodge

Lodge (countable and uncountable, plural Lodges)

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Sangamon Township, Piatt County, Illinois.
  3. An unincorporated community in the western part of Lorance Township, Bollinger County, Missouri.
  4. A town in Colleton County, South Carolina.
  5. An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia.

Also used as

lodge is also the ellipsis of porter's lodge.

lodge meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

lodge in Hindi

लॉज

lodge in Marathi

लॉज

lodge in Urdu

لاج

lodge in Bengali

লজ
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lodge in Telugu
లాడ్జ్
lodge in Punjabi
ਲਾੱਜ, ਲੌਜ
lodge in Gujarati
લોજ
lodge in Odia
ଲଜ୍, ଲଜ୍ କରନ୍ତୁ
lodge in Nepali
लज
lodge in Tagalog
lohiya, bahay-kastor
lodge in Arabic
غَلِقَ ḡaliqa
lodge in Persian
لژ lož

Examples of lodge in a sentence

  • 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.1947 March and April, “L.M.S.R. Hostels for Trainmen”, in Railway Magazine, page 75:
  • He [Harry Maguire] maintains his innocence and has lodged an appeal—which means a retrial and the conviction being set aside in the meantime—[…].2020 October 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-1 Denmark: 'Harry Maguire looked devoid of confidence in Nations League loss'”, in BBC Sport:

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Synonyms of lodge

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Forms of lodge

Noun
plurallodges
Verb
third-person singular presentlodges
present participlelodging
past participlelodged
pastlodged
Proper noun
pluralLodges

Past tense of lodge: lodged

Plural of lodge: lodges

Origin of 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.

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Questions about lodge

What does lodge mean?
Lodge means a building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
What is lodge in Hindi?
Lodge in Hindi is लॉज. See Lodge meaning in Hindi.
How do you use lodge in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is lodge?
Lodge can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce lodge?
Lodge is pronounced /lɒd͡ʒ/ (UK).
What is the plural of lodge?
The plural of lodge is lodges.

Words near lodge in the dictionary

  1. lodestar
  2. lodestars
  3. lodestone
  4. lodestones
  5. lodestuff
  6. lodge
  7. Lodge Bay
  8. lodge house
  9. lodge houses
  10. lodge pole
  11. lodge poles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lodge (page history and authors); Lodge (page history and authors); lodge (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lodge (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lodge (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lodge (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lodge (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lodge (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lodge (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lodge (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lodge (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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