Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A place to live.
- noun Sleeping accommodations.
- noun Furnished rooms in another's house rented for accommodation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place of temporary residence; especially, a room or rooms hired for residence in the house of another: often used in this sense in the plural with a singular meaning.
- noun Place of abode; harbor; cover.
- noun Place of rest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of one who, or that which, lodges.
- noun A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning.
- noun Abiding place; harbor; cover.
- noun a house where lodgings are provided and let.
- noun a room in which a person lodges, esp. a hired room.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A place to
live orlodge . - noun
sleeping accommodation . - noun in the plural
Furnished rooms in ahouse rented as accommodation.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily
- noun the act of lodging
- noun structures collectively in which people are housed
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Examples
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Baja Ferries have modern ships with restaurant, bar, and cabin lodging with private baths.
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(Be aware that at Easter the city fills up and obtaining lodging is difficult, not to mention getting around.)
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His goal was clear: obtain lodging for himself and the child.
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(Be aware that at Easter the city fills up and obtaining lodging is difficult, not to mention getting around.)
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We may drive as far as Bacalar if time permits but we may also just use Xpujil or other places where lodging is available and visit various sites over several days from that base.
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(Be aware that at Easter the city fills up and obtaining lodging is difficult, not to mention getting around.)
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Exhibiting pride and independence, she refused a small sum of money that would have paid for short-term lodging.
Paul Stoller: Media Failure and the Image of Africa Paul Stoller 2011
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(Be aware that at Easter the city fills up and obtaining lodging is difficult, not to mention getting around.)
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Exhibiting pride and independence, she refused a small sum of money that would have paid for short-term lodging.
Paul Stoller: Media Failure and the Image of Africa Paul Stoller 2011
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We don´t mind if lodging is "rustic" and had a lot of fun staying in rustic cabins run by indigenous folks when we visited Yaxchilán and Bonampak in the Lacandon Forest in Chiapas.
hernesheir commented on the word lodging
Rice and wheat plants are susceptible to lodging - falling over because stems and leaves are not sufficiently stiff to withstand winds and rain, making mechanical harvest difficult or impossible. Agriculturalists have studied methods to increase stem and leaf stiffness in plants.
February 9, 2010