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Lodging : (noun)
1: housing structures collectively; structures in which people
are housed [syn: housing, living accommodations]
2: the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even
temporarily; "the lodgment of the balloon in the tree"
[syn: lodgment, lodgement]
3: the act of lodging
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Lodge \Lodge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lodged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Lodging.]
1. To rest or remain a lodge house, or other shelter; to
rest; to stay; to abide; esp., to sleep at night; as, to
lodge in York Street. --Chaucer.
Stay and lodge by me this night. --Shak.
Something holy lodges in that breast. --Milton.
2. To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or
beaten down by the wind. --Mortimer.
3. To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet
lodged in the bark of a tree.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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