lodge

IPA: ɫˈɑdʒ

noun

  • A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
  • A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
  • (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
  • A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
  • A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
  • A den or cave.
  • The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
  • (mining) 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.
  • A collection of objects lodged together.
  • An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
  • (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.
  • A surname.
  • An unincorporated community in Sangamon Township, Piatt County, Illinois, United States.
  • An unincorporated community in the western part of Lorance Township, Bollinger County, Missouri, United States.
  • A town in Colleton County, South Carolina, United States.
  • An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia, United States.
  • Short for porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom. [A building for the porter(s) near the gate of a castle, college, etc., (historical) formerly used as a place of punishment for the staff.]

verb

  • (intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
  • (transitive) To firmly fix in a specified position.
  • (intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
  • (intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
  • (transitive) To drive (an animal) to covert.
  • (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
  • (transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
  • (transitive) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
  • (intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
  • (transitive) To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
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