[ UK /lˈɒd‍ʒ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɑdʒ/ ]
NOUN
  1. small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener
  2. a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
  3. any of various Native American dwellings
  4. a formal association of people with similar interests
    men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today
    they formed a small lunch society
    he joined a golf club
  5. a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter
VERB
  1. be a lodger; stay temporarily
    Where are you lodging in Paris?
  2. file a formal charge against
    The suspect was charged with murdering his wife
  3. put, fix, force, or implant
    stick your thumb in the crack
    lodge a bullet in the table
  4. provide housing for
    We are lodging three foreign students this semester
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How To Use lodge In A Sentence

  • So far, only a couple of the trees (literally two) have been found to be successful in fending off beetle attacks, using chemical and physical responses similar to those in lower-elevation tree species, such as lodgepole pine and Douglas fir. Louisa Willcox: Whitebark Pine: Functionally Gone in Much of the Greater Yellowstone
  • The Subaru then veered across the road and hit a telegraph pole, eventually becoming lodged between the pole and a tree.
  • The magnificent 18 th-century mansion is set in private landscaped grounds at the edge of the town, opposite the golf links and West Sands but totally screened by trees, woods and 18-foot high lodge gates.
  • Within four years he managed to dislodge the shah then in place Ahmad Shah Qajar and coronate himself, making his 5-year-old son crown prince. A Monarch Dethroned
  • He battled on with temporary replacements, which kept getting dislodged in training and preseason games. The Sun
  • The major pollutant in the area is particulates - tiny particles of dust or soot which get lodged in people's lungs and can damage health.
  • What wilderness areas and national parks need is branded lodges and holiday homes that offer a guarantee of quality. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then the king of England entered into the country of Beauvoisis, brenning and exiling the plain country, and lodged at a fair abbey and Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
  • In such a tightly managed duopoly partisan change is slow in coming, and then likely to be slow to dislodge.
  • The bank has been discussing a possible sale of the platform to local wealth manager IOOF Holdings Ltd. and a newspaper report Wednesday claimed that NAB has lodged an updated version of its bid with the ACCC, including a plan to sell North to IOOF for less than A$50 million. AXA Asia Profit Falls 19%
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