LODGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lodging mean? 

• LODGING (noun)
  The noun LODGING has 3 senses:

1. structures collectively in which people are housed

2. the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily

3. the act of lodging

  Familiarity information: LODGING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LODGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Structures collectively in which people are housed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

housing; living accommodations; lodging

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

construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lodging"):

apartment; flat (a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house)

billet (lodging for military personnel (especially in a private home))

block (housing in a large building that is divided into separate units)

camp (temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers)

condominium (housing consisting of a complex of dwelling units (as an apartment house) in which each unit is individually owned)

abode; domicile; dwelling; dwelling house; habitation; home (housing that someone is living in)

hospice (a lodging for travelers (especially one kept by a monastic order))

hostel; student lodging; youth hostel (inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips))

living quarters; quarters (housing available for people to live in)

manufactured home; mobile home (a large house trailer that can be connected to utilities and can be parked in one place and used as permanent housing)

pied-a-terre (lodging for occasional or secondary use)

quartering (living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel))

rattrap (filthy run-down dilapidated housing)

shelter (temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons)

tract housing (housing consisting of similar houses constructed together on a tract of land)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

lodgement; lodging; lodgment

Context example:

the lodgment of the balloon in the tree

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

fastness; fixedness; fixity; fixture; secureness (the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment)

Derivation:

lodge (put, fix, force, or implant)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of lodging

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

abidance; residence; residency (the act of dwelling in a place)

Derivation:

lodge (provide housing for)

lodge (be a lodger; stay temporarily)

 Context examples 

We do not like our lodgings here the worse, I can tell you, for putting us in mind of those we first had at North Yarmouth.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The man’s name is Henry Wood, and he lives in lodgings in this same street in which the ladies met him.

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

I could not hope to get a lodging under a roof, and sought it in the wood I have before alluded to.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Not satisfied with all these proceedings, but burning with impatience to do something more, I went to see Traddles, now lodging up behind the parapet of a house in Castle Street, Holborn.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He came back alone, for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town.

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

Their lodgings were not long a secret, and at length they began to know the officers themselves.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

During the first week of July, my friend had been absent so often and so long from our lodgings that I knew he had something on hand.

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

Do give me one night’s lodging, and a little to eat and drink, said he to her, or I shall starve.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

They were soon settled in comfortable lodgings in Pulteney Street.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I saw her placed in comfortable lodgings, and under proper attendants; I visited her every day during the rest of her short life: I was with her in her last moments.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)