lodge

Meaning

Noun

1. A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of 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. 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.
12. (historical) An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.

Verb

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

live

dwell

reside

hut

🛖

stay

house

🏠

inn

accommodate

quarter

deposit

room

cabin

stay overnight

file

club

abide

cottage

stick

put up

society

pass the night

inhabit

sojourn

hostel

give shelter to

wedge

billet

place

order

put

stop

🛑

locate

keep

store

hotel

🏨

wigwam

guild

accommodation

set

board

fix

gild

settle

charge

bed down

populate

occupy

camp

cable

live in

Translations

alloggiare

🏠

loge

loger

alojar

🏠

habiter

wohnen

demeurer

albergare

logia

héberger

🏠

depositare

beherbergen

morar

αντίσκηνο ινδιάνων

διαμένω

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lɒd͡ʒ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: logge

Cognate with English: leaf

Cognate with Old High German: louba

Cognate with German: Laube

Cognate with Old High German: loub

Cognate with Old English: lēaf

In summary

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-der.?
Proto-Germanic *laubą
Frankish *laub
Proto-Germanic *-jô
Frankish *-jō
Frankish *laubijābor.
Early Medieval Latin laubiader.
Old French logebor.
Middle English logge
English lodge
From Middle English logge, from Old French loge (“arbour, covered walk-way”).
See also 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.