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Lodging room

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.

Usage examples of "lodging room".

His room was bare and nondescript, a typical lodging room with a combo-toilet in one corner, in another a hand generator in case the main electricity supply failed, and a screen standing on the far side of the room with a bed behind it.