name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A surname.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sangamon Township, Piatt County, Illinois.
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name
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the western part of Lorance Township, Bollinger County, Missouri.
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name
A place in the United States:
A town in Colleton County, South Carolina.
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name
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia.
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noun
A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
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noun
Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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noun
A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
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noun
A local chapter of a trade union.
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Usage: US
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noun
A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
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noun
A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
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noun
A den or cave.
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noun
The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
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noun
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.
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Topics: business, mining
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noun
A collection of objects lodged together.
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noun
A Native American home, such as tipi or wigwam.
The people who live in one such home; a household.
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noun
A Native American home, such as tipi or wigwam.
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.
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Usage: historical
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verb
To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
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verb
To firmly fix in a specified position.
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verb
To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
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verb
To stay in any place or shelter.
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Usage: intransitive
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Synonyms: stay over, stop, keep, lodge, quarter, sleep over, sojourn, stay, stop off, stop over, tarry
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verb
To drive (an animal) to covert.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
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Usage: transitive
Topics: government, law, politics
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verb
To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: hostel, hostelry, inn, auberge
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Broader terms: hotel
Narrower terms: caravansary, caravanserai, khan, caravan inn, imaret, posthouse, post house, roadhouse
noun
any of various Native American dwellings
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: indian lodge
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Broader terms: dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house
Narrower terms: hogan, tepee, tipi, teepee, wickiup, wikiup, wigwam
noun
a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter
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Synonyms: hunting lodge
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Broader terms: house
noun
small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener
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Broader terms: gatehouse
noun
a formal association of people with similar interests
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: club, social club, society, guild, gild, order
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Broader terms: association
Narrower terms: athenaeum, atheneum, bookclub, chapter, chess club, country club, fraternity, frat, glee club, golf club, hunt, hunt club, investors club, jockey club, racket club, rowing club, slate club, sorority, turnverein, yacht club, boat club, service club
noun
English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940)
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Synonyms: Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge
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Broader terms: physicist
verb
file a formal charge against
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Synonyms: charge, file
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Broader terms: accuse, impeach, incriminate, criminate
Narrower terms: impeach
verb
put, fix, force, or implant
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: wedge, stick, deposit
Antonyms: dislodge
Broader terms: fasten, fix, secure
Narrower terms: redeposit
verb
provide housing for
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Synonyms: accommodate
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Broader terms: house, put up, domiciliate
Narrower terms: barrack, keep, quarter, billet, canton
verb
be a lodger; stay temporarily
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Broader terms: populate, dwell, live, inhabit
Narrower terms: sleep over, stay over
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewbh-der.? Proto-Germanic *laubą Proto-West Germanic *laub Proto-Germanic *-jô Proto-West Germanic *-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.
Across languages
165 source translations are retained for this English entry.