# lodging

Pronunciation: say "LOJ-ing" US /ˈlɑd͡ʒɪŋ/, UK /ˈlɒd͡ʒɪŋ/

## Noun

1. Accommodation for sleeping: a place where someone can spend the night.
   - Simple: A place where you can sleep, such as a room for 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._
2. A place where someone lives or lodges.
   - Simple: A place where a person lives or stays.
   - _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._
4. Furnished rooms in a house, rented out as a place to live.
   - Simple: Rooms in a house that you rent to live in, with the furniture already there.
   - _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._
5. 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.
   - Simple: When grain crops or other plants are knocked flat in the field and cannot stand up again.
   - _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._

## Verb

3. Present participle and gerund of lodge. — present participle and gerund of lodge
   - Simple: Present participle and gerund of lodge. Use it after words like is or was, or to name the action.
   - _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._

## Origin

Formed from lodge with the suffix -ing.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/lodging (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).