lodge

Meanings

Noun

• A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
• : a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially as a college mailroom.
• A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
• A local chapter of a trade union.
• A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
• A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
• A den or cave.
• The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
• 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.
• A collection of objects lodged together.
• An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.

Verb

• To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
• To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
• To stay in any place or shelter.
• To drive (an animal) to covert.
• To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
• To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
• To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
• To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
• To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.

Origin

• From Middle English logge, from Old French loge (compare cognate Medieval Latin lobia, laubia), from Frankish *laubijā, from Proto-West Germanic *laub (whence English leaf). Cognate with Old High German louba (German Laube), Old High German loub, Old English lēaf. loggia, and lobby.