Meaning

A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin..

Definitions by Sense

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. (US) 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.

Example Sentences

[H]e walked across Hawthorn Tree Court on his way to the porter's lodge. […] At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole.

the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands

The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree.

I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.

The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street.

Stay and lodge by me this night.

Something holy lodges in that breast.

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.

Word Forms

• lodges
• lodging
• lodged

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When Should You Use Lodge?

Use lodge when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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