lodge

noun

/lɒd͡ʒ/UK/lɑd͡ʒ/US

Etymology

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 (“an arbour, a covered walk-way”). See also Medieval Latin lobia, laubia; also Old High German louba (“a porch, a gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), Old English lēaf (“leaf, foliage”). Doublet of loggia and lobby.

derived from loge — “an arbour, a covered walk-way”
inherited from logge

Definitions

A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
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Ellipsis of porter's lodge
Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
- [H]e walked across Hawthorn Tree Court on his way to the porter's lodge. […] At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole.
A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
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1. A local chapter of a trade union.
2. A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
3. A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
4. A den or cave.
5. The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
6. The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or…
  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.
7. 10
  A collection of objects lodged together.
  - the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands
8. A Native American home, such as tipi or wigwam.
9. 12
  To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
  - The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree.
10. 13
  To firmly fix in a specified position.
  - I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.
11. 14
  To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
  - The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street.
12. 15
  To stay in any place or shelter.
  - Stay and lodge by me this night.
  - Something holy lodges in that breast.
  - It then becomes necessary for the men to lodge away from home, and at places on the system where large numbers require accommodation regularly, the L.M.S.R. maintains 43 permanent staff hostels.
13. To drive (an animal) to covert.
14. To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
15. To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
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  To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
  - to lodge a complaint
  - He [Harry Maguire] maintains his innocence and has lodged an appeal—which means a retrial and the conviction being set aside in the meantime—[…].
17. 20
  To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
  - The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge.
18. To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
19. A surname.
20. A place in the United States
  A place in the United States:

The neighborhood

Derived

Blue Lodge, Deer Lodge, Flodge, grand lodge, healing lodge, hunting lodge, juggler lodge, Keilor Lodge, lodgeful, lodgehouse, lodgekeeper, lodge pole, lodgepole, medicine lodge, motor lodge, plodge, porter's lodge, Red Lodge, seclusion lodge, ski lodge, sweat lodge, lodgement, lodger, lodge solemn representation, lodging, mislodge, relodge, unlodge

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at lodge. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at lodge. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at lodge

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA