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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lodging
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lodging house
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
house
▪ Sea Ixora remained silent as they drove back to the lodging house in Castries.
▪ He sat down on a sofa which he realised was slightly longer than his cubicle in the lodging house.
▪ The collective community charge applies to some houses in multiple occupation, some lodging houses and some hostels.
▪ A tall man waited at the stable entrance of the lodging house where Lucille Castineau had rented two attic rooms.
▪ Some will spend their giro cheque on a room in a lodging house.
▪ They sang and giggled all their way to every quiet lodging house and noisily whispered goodnight on the pavements.
▪ She thought of the noise of the lodging houses with the chorus girls shrieking at each other and larking in the corridors.
▪ He wondered if he would be able to stand the lodging house for much longer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The tourist office will send you information on lodging.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cost for a course including full board and lodging is £175.
▪ David was coming from his own lodging, pale and grave and preoccupied, with his child-wife by the hand.
▪ She got herself back to the lodging somehow.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lodging

Lodging \Lodg"ing\, n.

  1. The act of one who, or that which, lodges.

  2. A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning.
    --Gower.

    Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow.
    --Pope.

  3. Abiding place; harbor; cover.

    Fair bosom . . . the lodging of delight.
    --Spenser.

    Lodging house, a house where lodgings are provided and let.

    Lodging room, a room in which a person lodges, esp. a hired room.

Lodging

Lodge \Lodge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lodged (l[o^]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Lodging (l[o^]j"[i^]ng).]

  1. To rest or remain a lodge house, or other shelter; to rest; to stay; to abide; esp., to sleep at night; as, to lodge in York Street.
    --Chaucer.

    Stay and lodge by me this night.
    --Shak.

    Something holy lodges in that breast.
    --Milton.

  2. To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
    --Mortimer.

  3. To come to a rest; to stop and remain; to become stuck or caught; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree; a piece of meat lodged in his throat.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lodging

early 14c., "encampment;" late 14c., "temporary accommodation; place of residence," verbal noun from lodge (v.). Related: Lodgings.

Wiktionary
lodging

n. 1 A place to live or lodge. 2 sleeping accommodation. 3 (context in the plural English) furnished rooms in a house rented as accommodation. 4 (cx agriculture English) The condition of a plant, especially a cereal, that has been flattened in the field or damaged so that it cannot stand upright, as by weather conditions or because the stem is not strong enough to support the plant.

WordNet
lodging
  1. n. housing structures collectively; structures in which people are housed [syn: housing, living accommodations]

  2. the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily; "the lodgment of the balloon in the tree" [syn: lodgment, lodgement]

  3. the act of lodging

Wikipedia
Lodging

Lodging or a holiday accommodation is a type of residential accommodation. People who travel and stay away from home for more than a day need lodging for sleep, rest, safety, shelter from cold temperatures or rain, storage of luggage and access to common household functions.

Lodgings may be self-catering, in which case no food is provided, but cooking facilities are available.

Lodging is done in a hotel, motel, hostel or hostal, a private home (commercial, i.e. a bed and breakfast, a guest house, a vacation rental, or non-commercially, with members of hospitality services or in the home of friends), in a tent, caravan/ camper (often on a campsite).

Lodging (disambiguation)

Lodging may refer to:

  • Lodging, a type of residential accommodation
  • Lodging (agriculture), the bending over of the stems near the ground level in grain crops, which makes them very difficult to harvest
Lodging (agriculture)

Lodging is the bending over of the stems near the ground level in grain crops, which makes them very difficult to harvest and can dramatically reduce yield. Lodging in cereals is often a result of the combined effects of inadequate standing power of the crop and conditions such as rain, wind, hail, topography, soil, previous crop, and others.

Lodging affects wheat, rice, and other cereals, and reducing it is a major goal of agricultural research. Dwarf varieties, which are shorter, are one way of reducing lodging.

Lodging may occur at the root or the stem; the latter typically happens later, when the stem is dry and brittle. The timing of lodging can control its effect on yield, disease, grain moisture, quality, and eveness of ripening.

Usage examples of "lodging".

I cannot contravene the order of knights errant, about whom I know it is true, not having read anything to the contrary, that they never paid for their lodging or anything else in any inn where they stayed, because whatever welcome they receive is owed to them as their right and privi-lege in return for the unbearable hardships they suffer as they seek adventures by night and by day, in winter and in summer, on foot and on horseback, suffering thirst and hunger, heat and cold, and exposed to all the inclemencies of heaven and all the discomforts on earth.

I told him that, as far as I knew, Sir Justinian and Lady Albacore were the only inmates of the Lodging and tried to indicate from my memory of our tour where they were likely to be found.

There is not simply an inquiry as to the value of classic culture, a certain jealousy of the schools where it is obtained, a rough popular contempt for the graces of learning, a failure to see any connection between the first aorist and the rolling of steel rails, but there is arising an angry protest against the conditions of a life which make one free of the serene heights of thought and give him range of all intellectual countries, and keep another at the spade and the loom, year after year, that he may earn food for the day and lodging for the night.

The money that Astel had provided us proved to be more than sufficient to get us quite nice lodgings.

Jones at his lodgings, with some account of a young gentleman who lodged there, and of the mistress of the house, and her two daughters The next morning, as early as it was decent, Jones attended at Mrs.

For the purpose of attending the Exchange, and of becoming acquainted with the language, he hired a lodging in the neighborhood of the city, where he remained for some weeks.

We were all provided with very comfortable lodgings, but the intensity of the heat induced the baili to seek for a little coolness in a country mansion which had been hired by the Bailo Dona.

He sold me some Scopolo and old Cyprus Muscat, but he began to exclaim when he heard where I was lodging, and how I had come there.

Le Duc received similar orders, and calling Poinsinet I gave him ten Louis, and begged him to look out for some other lodging that very evening.

Alcalde Messa appeared and begged me to follow him, as he had received orders to take me back to my lodging, where he hoped I should find everything in perfect order.

One day Baron Pittoni met them at my lodgings, and as he liked young girls as well as I he begged Irene to make her daughter include him in her list of favoured lovers.

The lodgings were taken furnished, and a bondmaid of the house did such work as was indispensable.

That evening, when the ill-matched party of four met for supper at the Cle Argente, the comfortable inn near the cathedral where they had been lodging, Buckthorn and Silverwood proposed an evening of cards and music at the house of the tirelessly hospitable Monsieur Bouvin, whose acquaintance they had recently made.

Piazza del Popolo persuaded Buckthorn and Silverwood that the most charming lodgings in the area were to be found in the Palazzetto Raguzzi, at the northern end of the piazza.

Next morning I went out to see the pictures, and as I was returning to my lodging for dinner a blackguardly-looking fellow came up and ordered me, on the part of the Government, to continue my journey on the day following at latest.