lodging

Plurallodgings (some meanings)

1. 1
   noununcountable

   Accommodation for sleeping: a place where someone can spend the night.

   The conference fee covers meals and lodging for all three days.

   Caught by the snowstorm, the hikers asked a farmer for a night's lodging.

   Similaraccommodation, shelter

   Note

   Countable when it means one night's shelter asked for or given, as when the monk in Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present (1843), caught by the dark at Risby, has to beg a lodging there. Uncountable when it is a service that is paid for or provided, as in meals and lodging, a pairing common in fees and travel allowances.

2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A place where someone lives or lodges.

   Rising rents have made decent lodging hard to find for nurses in the city.

   The old miner's lodging was a one-room shack with a tin roof.

   Similarhousing, accommodation, dwelling, home

3. 3
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of lodge.

   Several residents are lodging formal complaints about the late-night noise.

   During the festival, the band was lodging at a boarding house near the station.

   Note

   The -ing form serves as the participle after be (she is lodging an appeal) and as the gerund (lodging with a family saved him money). Its meanings split by construction: lodging a complaint is formally submitting it, lodging at or with someone is staying there, and a bullet lodging in a wall is getting stuck.

4. 4
   nounusually plural

   Furnished rooms in a house, rented out as a place to live.

   She took lodgings with a widow on Elm Street: two furnished rooms and the use of the kitchen.

   The young clerk paid every Friday for his lodgings, a furnished back room in a tall house on the square.

   Similarrooms, quarters, accommodation

   Note

   Nearly always plural, however few rooms are meant: you take lodgings, look for lodgings, live in lodgings. The plural marks a rented, furnished arrangement in someone else's house, often with shared use of the kitchen, and keeps it apart from the plain sense of a home, which can be any place at all.

5. 5
   noununcountable

   The condition of a plant, especially a cereal crop, flattened or damaged so it cannot stand upright, for example by weather or because its stem is too weak to hold it up.

   After the hailstorm, severe lodging made the barley almost impossible to harvest.

   Too much nitrogen can produce tall, weak stems that are prone to lodging.

   Note

   Farmers say a crop lodges when it goes down, and lodging names the result. Agronomists separate stem lodging, where the stalk bends or snaps, from root lodging, where the roots lose their grip in soft, wet soil. Storms and weak, overfed stems both raise the risk, and a flattened crop is hard to cut and usually yields less.

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