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LODGER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tenant in someone's house
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("lodger" is a kind of...):
renter; tenant (someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else)
Derivation:
lodge (be a lodger; stay temporarily)
Context examples:
At his command, "Bring in the clan," Andy departed to go the round of the rooms for the lodgers.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
His defence was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he could not account in any way for the presence of the missing gentleman’s clothes.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She told us many details about her brother-in-law the steward, and then wandering off on the subject of her former lodgers, the medical students, she gave us a long account of their delinquencies, with their names and those of their hospitals.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
G.’ That is two days after Mrs. Warren’s lodger arrived.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But my feelings as a wife and mother require relief; and as I do not wish to consult my family (already obnoxious to the feelings of Mr. Micawber), I know no one of whom I can better ask advice than my friend and former lodger.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A sacred thing was this book her lodger had made, a fetich of friendship.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It’s all very appropriate to Mrs. Warren’s lodger.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When I awoke, the recollection that Uriah was lying in the next room, sat heavy on me like a waking nightmare; and oppressed me with a leaden dread, as if I had had some meaner quality of devil for a lodger.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
So flustered was she by two such grand young people asking for her lodger, that she forgot to invite them to sit down in the little parlor.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
You have received your rent, and he is not a troublesome lodger, though he is certainly an unusual one.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
