transcription, транскрипция: [ lɒdʒ ]
( lodges, lodging, lodged)
1.
A lodge is a house or hut in the country or in the mountains where people stay on holiday, especially when they want to shoot or fish.
...a Victorian hunting lodge.
...a ski lodge.
N-COUNT : usu supp N
2.
A lodge is a small house at the entrance to the grounds of a large house.
I drove out of the gates, past the keeper’s lodge.
N-COUNT
3.
In some organizations, a lodge is a local branch or meeting place of the organization.
My father would occasionally go to his Masonic lodge.
N-COUNT : usu supp N
4.
If you lodge a complaint, protest, accusation, or claim, you officially make it.
He has four weeks in which to lodge an appeal.
= make
VERB : V n
5.
If you lodge somewhere, such as in someone else’s house or if you are lodged there, you live there, usually paying rent.
...the story of the farming family she lodged with as a young teacher...
The building he was lodged in turned out to be a church.
VERB : V prep / adv , be V-ed prep / adv
6.
If someone lodges you somewhere, they give you a place to stay, for example because they are responsible for your safety or comfort.
They lodged the delegates in different hotels.
VERB : V n prep / adv
7.
If an object lodges somewhere, it becomes stuck there.
The bullet lodged in the sergeant’s leg, shattering his thigh bone...
His car has a bullet lodged in the passenger door.
VERB : V prep / adv , V-ed
8.
see also lodging