lodging
nounUS /ˈlɑd͡ʒɪŋ/ · UK /ˈlɒd͡ʒɪŋ/
Etymology From lodge + -ing.
1
A place to live or lodge.
2
Sleeping accommodation.
- When I was a Cloister-monk, I was once sent to Durham on business of our Church; and coming home again, the dark night caught me at Risby, and I had to beg a lodging there.1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XI, The Abbot’s Ways”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
3
In plural Furnished rooms in a house rented as accommodation.
4
Agriculture, Business, Lifestyle 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.
- Derived terms
- board and lodging, dry lodging, lodging house, lodgingless, nonlodging, outlodging
- Related terms
- lodge