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/lˈɑdʒɪŋ haʊs/ Listen

noun

Lodging n.

The act of one who, or that which, lodges.

A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; often in the plural with a singular meaning. "Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow."

Abiding place; harbor; cover. "Fair bosom... the lodging of delight."

Lodging house, a house where lodgings are provided and let.

Lodging room, a room in which a person lodges, esp. a hired room.

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Etymology of 'Lodging house'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lodging house" Quotes from Famous Books

... is occupied with the pecuniary affairs of his lodging house for farm boys, and the obtaining of ground where they might grow vegetables for ...

— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge

... as though we were never going to meet again. Mattia went in one direction, I in another. I had written down on paper the names of the places where Barberin had lived before. I went first to one place, then to another. At one lodging house they told me that he had lived there four years ago but that he had not been there since. The landlord told me that he'd like to catch the rogue, for he owed him one week's rent. I grew very despondent. There was only one place left for me to inquire; that was ...

— Nobody's Boy - Sans Famille • Hector Malot

... and cast him asphaltward. This seems low enough. But after that he acquired a pair of cloth top, button Congress gaiters and wrote complaining letters to the newspapers. And then he fought the attendant at the Municipal Lodging House who tried to give him a bath. When Murray first saw him he was holding the hand of an Italian woman who sold apples and garlic on Essex street, and quoting the words ...

— The Trimmed Lamp and Others • O Henry

... proved to be five, and they had to make another turn or two. Then they came to the side door of a building used as a lodging house and a pool and billiard parlor. This resort was run by a man named Bill Fargo, a sport who had once had dealings with Shocker in ...

— Dave Porter at Star Ranch - Or, The Cowboy's Secret • Edward Stratemeyer

... the rest so soon as I should have found out anything. I drove to Walworth and found, with some difficulty, Potter's Court. Mr. Smollet's spelling misled me, as I asked for Poter's Court instead of Potter's Court. However, when I had found the court, I had no difficulty in discovering Corcoran's lodging house. ...

— Dracula • Bram Stoker

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