lodging

Plurallodgings (some meanings)

1. 1
   noununcountable

   A place where you can sleep, such as a room for the night.

   The price of the trip includes lodging and breakfast.

   We found lodging at a small inn near the lake.

   Similaraccommodation, shelter

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2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A place where a person lives or stays.

   The college helps new students find lodging near campus.

   His lodging was a small cabin at the edge of the woods.

   Similarhousing, accommodation, dwelling, home

3. 3
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of lodge. Use it after words like is or was, or to name the action.

   They are lodging with an old couple in town this summer.

   She is lodging a complaint with the store manager.

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4. 4
   nounusually plural

   Rooms in a house that you rent to live in, with the furniture already there.

   When he started college, he found cheap lodgings in a house near the station.

   Our lodgings were two small rooms at the top of an old lady's house.

   Similarrooms, quarters, accommodation

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5. 5
   noununcountable

   When grain crops or other plants are knocked flat in the field and cannot stand up again.

   Heavy rain caused lodging in half of the wheat field.

   Farmers plant shorter, stronger kinds of oats to avoid lodging.

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