lodging : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: lodging	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for lodging
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lodging n structures collectively in which people are housed [syn: housing, lodging, living accommodations] the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily; "the lodgment of the balloon in the tree" Synonym(s): lodgment, lodgement, lodging the act of lodging
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lodge \Lodge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lodged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lodging}.] 1. To rest or remain a lodge house, or other shelter; to rest; to stay; to abide; esp., to sleep at night; as, to lodge in York Street. --Chaucer. Stay and lodge by me this night. --Shak. Something holy lodges in that breast. --Milton. 2. To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind. --Mortimer. 3. To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lodging \Lodg"ing\, n. 1. The act of one who, or that which, lodges. 2. A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning. --Gower. Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow. --Pope. 3. Abiding place; harbor; cover. Fair bosom . . . the lodging of delight. --Spenser. {Lodging house}, a house where lodgings are provided and let. {Lodging room}, a room in which a person lodges, esp. a hired room.