LODGINGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lodgings mean? 

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

1. temporary living quarters

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LODGINGS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Temporary living quarters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

diggings; digs; domiciliation; lodgings; pad

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

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

Derivation:

lodge (provide housing for)

lodge (be a lodger; stay temporarily)

 Context examples 

Her whole happiness seemed at stake, while the affair was in suspense, and everything secured when it was determined that the lodgings should be taken for another fortnight.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

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

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

How many days was it, my dear, between the first time of my seeing you and our sitting down together in our lodgings at North Yarmouth?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

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

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

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)

We hurried down the village street and found, as we had expected, that the inspector was just leaving his lodgings.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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)

“I care not where I sleep,” said he; “but these are indeed somewhat rude lodgings for this fair lady.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If Lord Avon had not given me a cast in his carriage, I had never got my flowers back to my lodgings in York Street, Westminster.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And, by what I understand, you might have had lodgings there quite away from the sea—a quarter of a mile off—very comfortable.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)