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lodg·ing

(lŏj′ĭng)

1. A place to live: found lodging near her new job.

2. often lodgings Sleeping accommodations: We found the lodgings on the tour rather primitive.

3. lodgings Furnished rooms in another's house rented for accommodation.

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lodging

(ˈlɒdʒɪŋ)

1. a temporary residence

2. (sometimes plural) sleeping accommodation

3. (sometimes plural) (at Oxford University) the residence of the head of a college

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lodg•ing

(ˈlɒdʒ ɪŋ)

n.

1. accommodation in a house, esp. in rooms for rent: to furnish board and lodging.

2. a temporary place to stay.

3. lodgings, a room or rooms rented for residence in another's house.

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Noun	1.	lodging - structures collectively in which people are housed housing, living accommodations 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; "there is a block of classrooms in the west wing" camp - temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers; "level ground is best for parking and camp areas" condominium - housing consisting of a complex of dwelling units (as an apartment house) in which each unit is individually owned dwelling, dwelling house, habitation, home, abode, domicile - housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" hospice - a lodging for travelers (especially one kept by a monastic order) student lodging, youth hostel, hostel - inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips) living quarters, quarters - housing available for people to live in; "he found quarters for his family"; "I visited his bachelor quarters" 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; "they bought a pied-a-terre in London" quartering - living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel) rattrap - filthy run-down dilapidated housing shelter - temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons structure, construction - a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons" tract housing - housing consisting of similar houses constructed together on a tract of land
	2.	lodging - the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily; "the lodgment of the balloon in the tree" lodgement, lodgment fixity, fastness, fixedness, secureness, fixture - the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
	3.	lodging - the act of lodging residency, abidance, residence - the act of dwelling in a place

lodging

noun (often plural) accommodation, rooms, boarding, apartments, quarters, digs (Brit. informal), shelter, residence, dwelling, abode, habitation He was given free meals and lodgings.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

lodging

noun

1. Dwellings in general:

housing, shelter.

Idiom: a roof over one's head.

2. A building or shelter where one lives.Often used in plural:

abode, domicile, dwelling, habitation, home, house, place, residence.

Chiefly British: dig (used in plural).

Translations

مأوى، سَكَنمَساكِن مَفْروشَه مُسْتأجَرَه

podnájemubytování

lejet boliglejet værelselogi

Unterkunft Logis Mietwohnung möbliertes Zimmer

κατάλυμα

albergue

chambre meublée pension verse

kivett lakás

húsnæîileiguherbergi

alloggio alloggiamento

podnájom

pansiyon odasıyatacak/kalacak yer

住宿处租住的房间

lodging

[ˈlɒdʒɪŋ]

A. N → alojamiento m, hospedaje m
they gave me a night's lodging → me dieron alojamiento lodgings → alojamiento msing
to look for lodgings → buscar alojamiento
we took lodgings with Mrs P → nos hospedamos en casa de la Sra. P
are they good lodgings? → ¿es buena la pensión?

B. CPD lodging house N → pensión f, casa f de huéspedes

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

lodging

[ˈlɒdʒɪŋ] n (= accommodation) → logement m
He will find you a night's lodging → Il vous trouvera un logement pour la nuit.
He was given free lodging
BUT Il était logé gratuitement.
board and lodging → le gîte et le couvert
He offered to pay Peter's board and lodging out of his own pocket → Il offrit de payer de sa poche le gîte et le couvert pour Peter.lodging house n (British) → pension f de famille

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

lodging

→ Unterkunft f; they gave me a night’s lodging → sie gaben mir Unterkunft or ein Zimmer für die Nacht

lodgings pl → ein möbliertes Zimmer, möblierte Zimmer pl; where are your lodgings? → wo wohnen Sie?; we took lodgings with Mrs B → wir mieteten uns bei Frau B ein

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

lodging

[ˈlɒdʒɪŋ] n (accommodation) → alloggio
see also board

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

lodge

(lodʒ) noun

1. a small house, especially one at a gate to the grounds of a large house.

2. a room at a college gate etc for an attendant. the porter's lodge.

verb

1. to live in rooms for which one pays, in someone else's house. He lodges with the Smiths.

2. to make or become fixed. The bullet was lodged in his spine.

3. to make (an objection, an appeal etc) formally or officially.

ˈlodger noun

a person who lives in a room or rooms, for which he pays, in someone else's house. She rented a room to a lodger.

ˈlodging

1. (often in plural) a room or rooms hired in someone else's house. She lives in lodgings.

2. a place to stay. He paid the landlady for board and lodging.

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"As for myself, madam," said he, "my lodging is at your service at a moment's warning; and Mr Nightingale, I am sure, as he cannot yet prepare a house fit to receive his lady, will consent to return to his new lodging, whither Mrs Nightingale will certainly consent to go." With which proposal both husband and wife instantly agreed.

The letter then which arrived at the end of the preceding chapter was from Mr Allworthy, and the purport of it was, his intention to come immediately to town, with his nephew Blifil, and a desire to be accommodated with his usual lodgings, which were the first floor for himself, and the second for his nephew.

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"Don't jump to conclusions," the other said; "we are out of the wet and provided with board and lodging."

"With lodging, certainly," said the First Frog; "but I don't see the board."

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There happened nothing remarkable to us till the last night of our journey, when taking up our lodging at a place belonging to the Empress, a declared enemy to all Catholics, and in particular to the missionaries, we met with a kind reception in appearance, and were lodged in a large stone house covered with wood and straw, which had stood uninhabited so long, that great numbers of red ants had taken possession of it; these, as soon as we were laid down, attacked us on all sides, and tormented us so incessantly that we were obliged to call up our domestics.

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On the day following the evening which had contained so many exciting events, McMurdo moved his lodgings from old Jacob Shafter's and took up his quarters at the Widow MacNamara's on the extreme outskirts of the town.

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Not visited by the surviving members of her family, living, literally, by herself in the world, Hester decided, in spite of her comfortable little income, on letting lodgings. The explanation of this strange conduct which she had written on her slate, in reply to an inquiry from Anne, was the true one.

The term for which the lodgings had been taken was then still unexpired.

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Thedora and myself cannot remain any longer in our present lodgings, for we have been subjected to great unpleasantness, and you cannot imagine my state of agitation and dismay.

Borrow all the money that you can get, for I have not the wherewithal to leave these lodgings, yet cannot possibly remain in them any longer.

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"As a gentlewoman myself," proceeded the landlady--"reduced by family misfortunes to let lodgings, but still a gentlewoman--I feel sincere sympathy with you.

"I understand," I said, "that you wish to give us notice to quit your lodgings. When do you want us to go?"