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1. Be a lodger; stay temporarily
   "Where are you lodging in Paris?"
    
2. Provide housing for
   "We are lodging three foreign students this semester";
   - accommodate
    
3. Put, fix, force, or implant
   "lodge a bullet in the table";
   - wedge, stick, deposit
    
4. Place a formal charge against
   - charge, file
    
5. Put money or valuables in a safe place or safe hands
    
6. Flatten to the ground
   "The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge"

1. [Brit] Small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener
    
2. A small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter
   - hunting lodge
    
3. Any of various Native American dwellings
   - indian lodge
    
4. A hotel providing overnight lodging for travellers
   - hostel, hostelry, inn, auberge
    
5. A formal association of people with similar interests
   "he joined a golf lodge";
   - club, social club, society, guild, gild, order
    
6. A beaver's den constructed on a pond or lake

1. English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940)
   - Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge

Derived forms: lodged, lodges, lodging

See also: occupy

Type of: abode, accuse, association, criminate, domicil [rare], domicile, domiciliate, dwell, dwelling, dwelling house, fasten, fix, gatehouse, habitation, home, hotel, house, impeach, incriminate, inhabit, live, physicist, populate, put up, secure

Encyclopedia: Lodge, Richard