LODGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lodger mean? 

• LODGER (noun)
  The noun LODGER has 1 sense:

1. a tenant in someone's house

  Familiarity information: LODGER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LODGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tenant in someone's house

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

boarder; lodger; roomer

Hypernyms ("lodger" is a kind of...):

renter; tenant (someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else)

Derivation:

lodge (be a lodger; stay temporarily)

 Context examples 

Well, apart from this cigarette-end, was it not suggestive that the only time the lodger went out was immediately after his taking the rooms?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And the farmers take in lodgers.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You have never been a lodger.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But it was one of her progeny who blasted Maria's reputation by announcing that the grand visitors had been for her lodger.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This is the man whom we now learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affected a certain quiet primness of dress, he was none the less in his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We've a little stranger here—he! he! A noo boarder and lodger, sir, and looking fit and taut as a fiddle; slep' like a supercargo, he did, right alongside of John—stem to stem we was, all night.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The rooms were shut up, the lodgers almost all gone, scarcely any family but of the residents left; and, as there is nothing to admire in the buildings themselves, the remarkable situation of the town, the principal street almost hurrying into the water, the walk to the Cobb, skirting round the pleasant little bay, which, in the season, is animated with bathing machines and company; the Cobb itself, its old wonders and new improvements, with the very beautiful line of cliffs stretching out to the east of the town, are what the stranger's eye will seek; and a very strange stranger it must be, who does not see charms in the immediate environs of Lyme, to make him wish to know it better.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Yes, Watson, there are good reasons to suspect that there has been a substitution of lodgers.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He has been written to by Mr. Murdstone, on the subject of your lodgings, and he will receive you as a lodger.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)