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lodgings

Syllables: lodg·ings/ˈlɒd͡ʒɪŋz/US/ˈlɑd͡ʒɪŋz/

lodgings is the plural of lodging.

Noun

lodgings pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A room or set of rooms in another person's house where a person lodges.
    • Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
  2. (historical, plural, plural-only) A furnished room or suite of rooms rented within a private house as a temporary or semi-permanent accommodation, often including a baseline of domestic service.
    • '[…] I saw her placed in comfortable lodgings, and under proper attendants; I visited her every day during the rest of her short life; I was with her in her last moments.'1811, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC
  3. (plural, plural-only) An official residence.

Meaning of lodging

Noun

lodging (countable and uncountable, plural lodgings)

  1. A place to live or lodge.
  2. Sleeping accommodation.
    • When I was a Cloister-monk, I was once sent to Durham on business of our Church; and coming home again, the dark night caught me at Risby, and I had to beg a lodging there.1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XI, The Abbot’s Ways”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)
  3. (in plural) Furnished rooms in a house rented as accommodation.
  4. The condition of a plant, especially a cereal, that has been flattened in the field or damaged so that it cannot stand upright, as by weather conditions or because the stem is not strong enough to support the plant.

Synonyms of lodgings

Phrases with lodgings

Questions about lodgings

What does lodgings mean?
Lodgings means a room or set of rooms in another person's house where a person lodges.
What is lodgings the plural of?
Lodgings is the plural of lodging.
What part of speech is lodgings?
Lodgings is a noun.
How do you pronounce lodgings?
Lodgings is pronounced /ˈlɑd͡ʒɪŋz/ (US).

Words near lodgings in the dictionary

  1. lodging-house
  2. lodging-houses
  3. lodginghouse
  4. lodginghouses
  5. lodgingless
  6. lodgings
  7. lodgment
  8. lodgments
  9. Lodha
  10. Lodhas
  11. Lodhi

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