Standard Lemma guide

lodge

name · noun · verb · 37 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /lɒd͡ʒ/
  • General-American: /lɑd͡ʒ/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɒdʒ
  • CMU ARPABET: L AA1 JH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A place in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Sangamon Township, Piatt County, Illinois.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

A place in the United States:

An unincorporated community in the western part of Lorance Township, Bollinger County, Missouri.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

name

Meaning 4

A place in the United States:

A town in Colleton County, South Carolina.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

name

Meaning 5

A place in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

A local chapter of a trade union.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

A rural hotel or resort, an inn.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

A den or cave.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

noun

Meaning 14

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: business, mining

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

noun

Meaning 15

A collection of objects lodged together.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

noun

Meaning 16

A Native American home, such as tipi or wigwam.

The people who live in one such home; a household.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

noun

Meaning 17

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

Examples

  • The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

18

verb

Meaning 18

To be firmly fixed in a specified position.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

19

verb

Meaning 19

To firmly fix in a specified position.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

20

verb

Meaning 20

To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

Examples

  • The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

21

verb

Meaning 21

To stay in any place or shelter.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: stay over, stop, keep, lodge, quarter, sleep over, sojourn, stay, stop off, stop over, tarry

Antonyms: none provided

22

verb

Meaning 22

To drive (an animal) to covert.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

23

verb

Meaning 23

To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

24

verb

Meaning 24

To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

25

verb

Meaning 25

To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Topics: government, law, politics

Examples

  • to lodge a complaint
  • Powers that are lodged with the cabinet.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

26

verb

Meaning 26

To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

Examples

  • The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

27

verb

Meaning 27

To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

28

noun

Meaning 28

a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: hostel, hostelry, inn, auberge

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: hotel

Narrower terms: caravansary, caravanserai, khan, caravan inn, imaret, posthouse, post house, roadhouse

29

noun

Meaning 29

any of various Native American dwellings

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: indian lodge

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house

Narrower terms: hogan, tepee, tipi, teepee, wickiup, wikiup, wigwam

30

noun

Meaning 30

a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: hunting lodge

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: house

31

noun

Meaning 31

small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: gatehouse

32

noun

Meaning 32

a formal association of people with similar interests

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he joined a golf club
  • they formed a small lunch society
  • men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: club, social club, society, guild, gild, order

Antonyms: none provided

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

33

noun

Meaning 33

English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: physicist

34

verb

Meaning 34

file a formal charge against

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • The suspect was charged with murdering his wife

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: charge, file

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: accuse, impeach, incriminate, criminate

Narrower terms: impeach

35

verb

Meaning 35

put, fix, force, or implant

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • lodge a bullet in the table
  • stick your thumb in the crack

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: wedge, stick, deposit

Antonyms: dislodge

Broader terms: fasten, fix, secure

Narrower terms: redeposit

36

verb

Meaning 36

provide housing for

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • We are lodging three foreign students this semester

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: accommodate

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: house, put up, domiciliate

Narrower terms: barrack, keep, quarter, billet, canton

37

verb

Meaning 37

be a lodger; stay temporarily

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Where are you lodging in Paris?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: populate, dwell, live, inhabit

Narrower terms: sleep over, stay over

History

Etymology

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

Translations

165 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: хи́жа (híža) — recreational building
  • Catalan: cabana — recreational building
  • Dutch: hut — recreational building
  • Finnish: maja — recreational building
  • Finnish: mökki — recreational building
  • French: cabane — recreational building
  • German: Lodge — recreational building
  • Italian: casino — recreational building
  • Macedonian: ко́либа (kóliba) — recreational building
  • Occitan: cabana — recreational building
  • Occitan: barraca — recreational building
  • Occitan: ostaladon — recreational building
  • Occitan: ostalet — recreational building
  • Occitan: lòtja — recreational building
  • Portuguese: cabana — recreational building
  • Romanian: cabană — recreational building
  • Russian: до́мик (dómik) — recreational building
  • Slovak: chata — recreational building
  • Spanish: cabaña — recreational building
  • Swedish: sportstuga — recreational building
  • Swedish: fritidshus — recreational building
  • Bulgarian: портие́рна (portiérna) — porter's rooms
  • Catalan: porteria — porter's rooms
  • Dutch: portierswoning — porter's rooms
  • Finnish: portinvartijan tupa — porter's rooms
  • French: maison du portier — porter's rooms
  • German: Loge — porter's rooms
  • Italian: guardiola — porter's rooms
  • Italian: portineria — porter's rooms
  • Macedonian: порти́рница (portírnica) — porter's rooms
  • Polish: portiernia — porter's rooms
  • Romanian: cabină — porter's rooms
  • Romanian: gheretă — porter's rooms
  • Romanian: lojă — porter's rooms
  • Russian: сторо́жка (storóžka) — porter's rooms
  • Russian: до́мик (dómik) — porter's rooms
  • Russian: бу́дка (búdka) — porter's rooms
  • Spanish: caseta — porter's rooms
  • Bulgarian: ло́жа (lóža) — local chapter of freemasons
  • Catalan: lògia — local chapter of freemasons
  • Czech: lóže — local chapter of freemasons
  • Dutch: loge — local chapter of freemasons
  • Esperanto: loĝio — local chapter of freemasons
  • Finnish: loosi — local chapter of freemasons
  • French: loge — local chapter of freemasons
  • Galician: loxa — local chapter of freemasons
  • German: Loge — local chapter of freemasons
  • Hungarian: páholy — local chapter of freemasons
  • Italian: loggia — local chapter of freemasons
  • Macedonian: ло́жа (lóža) — local chapter of freemasons
  • Occitan: lòtja — local chapter of freemasons
  • Persian: لژ (lož) — local chapter of freemasons
  • Portuguese: loja — local chapter of freemasons
  • Romanian: lojă — local chapter of freemasons
  • Russian: ло́жа (lóža) — local chapter of freemasons
  • Spanish: logia — local chapter of freemasons
  • Swedish: loge — local chapter of freemasons
  • Tagalog: lohiya — local chapter of freemasons
  • Ottoman Turkish: لوجه (loca) — local chapter of freemasons
  • Bulgarian: регионален съвет (regionalen sǎvet) — local chapter of trade union
  • Finnish: ammattiosasto — local chapter of trade union
  • Spanish: logia — local chapter of trade union
  • Tagalog: lohiya — local chapter of trade union
  • Ahtna: tsaʼ hwtsiił — beaver's shelter
  • Atikamekw: oskotim — beaver's shelter
  • Catalan: cau — beaver's shelter
  • Finnish: keko — beaver's shelter
  • German: Biberburg — beaver's shelter
  • Inupiaq: iglu — beaver's shelter
  • Macedonian: ду́вло (dúvlo) — beaver's shelter
  • Malecite-Passamaquoddy: pqapitikuwam — beaver's shelter
  • Montagnais: uisht — beaver's shelter
  • Naskapi: ᐎᔅᑦ (wist) — beaver's shelter
  • Ottawa: mikgamig — beaver's shelter
  • Penobscot: təmahkwáyikamikw — beaver's shelter
  • Polish: żeremie — beaver's shelter
  • Romanian: baracă — beaver's shelter
  • Romanian: adăpost — beaver's shelter
  • Romanian: colibă — beaver's shelter
  • Russian: ха́тка (xátka) — beaver's shelter
  • Spanish: madriguera — beaver's shelter
  • Tagalog: bahay-kastor — beaver's shelter
  • Arabic: غَلِقَ (ḡaliqa) — to be firmly fixed in a specified position
  • Bulgarian: зася́дам (zasjádam) — to be firmly fixed in a specified position
  • Chinese Mandarin: 卡住 (qiǎzhù) — to be firmly fixed in a specified position
  • Finnish: juuttua — to be firmly fixed in a specified position
  • German: feststecken — to be firmly fixed in a specified position
  • German: festklemmen — to be firmly fixed in a specified position
  • Hungarian: megakad — to be firmly fixed in a specified position
  • Portuguese: emperrar — to be firmly fixed in a specified position
  • Portuguese: alojar — to be firmly fixed in a specified position
  • Russian: застрева́ть (zastrevátʹ) — to be firmly fixed in a specified position
  • Russian: застря́ть (zastrjátʹ) — to be firmly fixed in a specified position
  • Spanish: meterse — to be firmly fixed in a specified position
  • Bulgarian: квартирувам (kvartiruvam) — to stay in a boarding-house
  • Chinese Mandarin: 寄宿 (jìsù) — to stay in a boarding-house
  • Finnish: asua alivuokralaisena — to stay in a boarding-house
  • Galician: apousentar — to stay in a boarding-house
  • Galician: albergar — to stay in a boarding-house
  • Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (saljan) — to stay in a boarding-house
  • Ancient Greek: μένω (ménō) — to stay in a boarding-house
  • Hungarian: lakbért fizet — to stay in a boarding-house
  • Japanese: 泊まる (tomaru) — to stay in a boarding-house
  • Japanese: 宿泊 (shukuhaku) — to stay in a boarding-house
  • Korean: 묵다 (mukda) — to stay in a boarding-house
  • Latin: dēversor — to stay in a boarding-house
  • Macedonian: се сме́сти (se smésti) — to stay in a boarding-house
  • Quechua: chayakamuy — to stay in a boarding-house
  • Russian: квартирова́ться (kvartirovátʹsja) — to stay in a boarding-house
  • Russian: остава́ться (ostavátʹsja) — to stay in a boarding-house
  • Russian: оста́ться (ostátʹsja) — to stay in a boarding-house
  • Russian: остана́вливаться (ostanávlivatʹsja) — to stay in a boarding-house
  • Russian: останови́ться (ostanovítʹsja) — to stay in a boarding-house
  • Spanish: meter — to stay in a boarding-house
  • Bulgarian: подслоня́вам се (podslonjávam se) — to stay in any place or shelter
  • French: loger — to stay in any place or shelter
  • French: demeurer — to stay in any place or shelter
  • Galician: apousentar — to stay in any place or shelter
  • Galician: pousar — to stay in any place or shelter
  • Galician: albergar — to stay in any place or shelter
  • German: logieren — to stay in any place or shelter
  • Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌰𐌽 (gabauan) — to stay in any place or shelter
  • Ancient Greek: μένω (ménō) — to stay in any place or shelter
  • Hebrew: לָן (lan) — to stay in any place or shelter
  • Korean: 숙박하다 (sukbakhada) — to stay in any place or shelter
  • Ottoman Turkish: اوتورمق (oturmak) — to stay in any place or shelter
  • Bulgarian: подслоня́вам (podslonjávam) — to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time
  • Catalan: allotjar — to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time
  • Catalan: acollir — to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time
  • Dutch: herbergen — to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time
  • Finnish: majoittaa — to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time
  • Galician: apousentar — to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time
  • Galician: acoller — to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time
  • Galician: albergar — to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time
  • Hebrew: הֵלִין (helín) — to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time
  • Hungarian: elszállásol — to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time
  • Italian: alloggiare — to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time
  • Middle English: herberwen — to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time
  • Portuguese: acolher — to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time
  • Spanish: alojar — to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time
  • Spanish: albergar — to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time
  • Bulgarian: съхраня́вам (sǎhranjávam) — to put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety
  • Finnish: panna talteen — to put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety
  • Hungarian: letétbe helyez — to put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety
  • Bulgarian: пода́вам (podávam) — to place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities
  • Finnish: rekisteröidä — to place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities
  • German: einlegen — to place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities
  • Hungarian: benyújt — to place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities
  • Hungarian: bejelent — to place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities
  • Russian: подава́ть (podavátʹ) — to place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities
  • Russian: пода́ть (podátʹ) — to place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities
  • Bulgarian: сплесквам (spleskvam) — to flatten to the ground
  • Bulgarian: сплесна (splesna) — to flatten to the ground
  • Bulgarian: стъпквам (stǎpkvam) — to flatten to the ground
  • Bulgarian: стъпча (stǎpča) — to flatten to the ground
  • Catalan: ajeure — to flatten to the ground
  • Finnish: laota — to flatten to the ground
  • Finnish: laottaa — to flatten to the ground
  • French: verser — to flatten to the ground
  • Hungarian: megdönt — to flatten to the ground
  • Hungarian: letarol — to flatten to the ground
  • Portuguese: acamar — to flatten to the ground
  • Spanish: encamarse — to flatten to the ground
  • Spanish: abatirse — to flatten to the ground
  • Walloon: flaxhî — to flatten to the ground
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