lodge

English Online Dictionary. What means lodge‎? What does lodge mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English logge, from Old French loge (“arbour, covered walk-way”), from Frankish *laubijā (“shelter; arbour”), from Proto-West Germanic *laub (“leaf; folliage”) (whence English leaf).

See also (compare cognate Medieval Latin lobia, laubia; also Old High German louba (“porch, gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), Old English lēaf (“leaf, foliage”). Doublet of loggia and lobby.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /lɒd͡ʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /lɑd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɒdʒ

Noun

lodge (plural lodges)

1. A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
2. Short for porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
3. A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
4. (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
5. A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
6. A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
7. A den or cave.
8. The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
9. (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.
10. A collection of objects lodged together.
11. An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
    1. (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.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Dutch: lodge

Translations

Verb

lodge (third-person singular simple present lodges, present participle lodging, simple past and past participle lodged)

1. (intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.

2. (transitive) To firmly fix in a specified position.

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

4. (intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
5. (transitive) To drive (an animal) to covert.
6. (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
7. (transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
8. (transitive) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
9. (intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.

10. (transitive) To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.

Synonyms

• (to stay in any place or shelter): stay over, stop; See also Thesaurus:sojourn

Derived terms

• ecolodge
• lodge solemn representation
• lodger
• lodging
• lodgement

Translations

References

Anagrams

• e-gold, ogled, glode, golde, Dolge, Le God, Godel

French

Noun

lodge m (plural lodges)

1. lodge (tourist residence, especially in Africa)