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LODGING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of lodging
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("lodging" is a kind of...):
abidance; residence; residency (the act of dwelling in a place)
Derivation:
lodge (provide housing for)
lodge (be a lodger; stay temporarily)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Structures collectively in which people are housed
Synonyms:
housing; living accommodations; lodging
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("lodging" is a kind of...):
construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lodging"):
apartment; flat (a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house)
billet (lodging for military personnel (especially in a private home))
block (housing in a large building that is divided into separate units)
camp (temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers)
condominium (housing consisting of a complex of dwelling units (as an apartment house) in which each unit is individually owned)
abode; domicile; dwelling; dwelling house; habitation; home (housing that someone is living in)
hospice (a lodging for travelers (especially one kept by a monastic order))
hostel; student lodging; youth hostel (inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips))
living quarters; quarters (housing available for people to live in)
manufactured home; mobile home (a large house trailer that can be connected to utilities and can be parked in one place and used as permanent housing)
pied-a-terre (lodging for occasional or secondary use)
quartering (living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel))
rattrap (filthy run-down dilapidated housing)
shelter (temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons)
tract housing (housing consisting of similar houses constructed together on a tract of land)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily
Example:
the lodgment of the balloon in the tree
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("lodging" is a kind of...):
fastness; fixedness; fixity; fixture; secureness (the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment)
Derivation:
lodge (put, fix, force, or implant)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb lodge
Context examples:
And, by what I understand, you might have had lodgings there quite away from the sea—a quarter of a mile off—very comfortable.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“Take time to consider. The smallest point may be the most essential. You say that the man came ten days ago and paid you for a fortnight’s board and lodging?”
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If Lord Avon had not given me a cast in his carriage, I had never got my flowers back to my lodgings in York Street, Westminster.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I care not where I sleep,” said he; “but these are indeed somewhat rude lodgings for this fair lady.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When used in transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) procedures, infusion leads to lodging of the microspheres in the precapillary vessels and, consequently, to the occlusion of the hepatic artery.
(Amilomer, NCI Thesaurus)
After this manner we continued in the island for ten days, most part of every day with the governor, and at night in our lodging.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The Commandant Ferraz Station was installed two years later, in February 1984, lodging military agents and scientists.
(Brazil ship off to Antarctica for research support, Agência Brasil)
Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17__ and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A small lobe sometimes found on the upper part of the right lung, formed by an infolding of the pleura and separated from the rest of the upper lobe by a deep groove lodging the azygos vein.
(Azygos Lobe, NCI Thesaurus)
The Crofts had placed themselves in lodgings in Gay Street, perfectly to Sir Walter's satisfaction.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
