Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-der.?
Proto-Germanic *laubą
Proto-West Germanic *laub
Proto-Germanic *-jô
Proto-West Germanic *-jō
Frankish *laubijābor.
Early Medieval Latin laubiader.
Old French logebor.
Middle English logge
English lodge
From Middle English logge, from Old French loge (“an arbour, a covered walk-way”).
See also Medieval Latin lobia, laubia; also Old High German louba (“a porch, a gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), Old English lēaf (“leaf, foliage”). Doublet of loggia and lobby.
Meanings
A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
(abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
[H]e walked across Hawthorn Tree Court on his way to the porter's lodge. […] At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole. 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 39:
A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
(US) A local chapter of a trade union.
A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
A den or cave.
The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
A collection of objects lodged together.
the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands 1720, [Daniel Defoe], The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton, London: […] J[ohn] Brotherton, […], J[ohn] Graves […], A[nne] Dodd, […], and T[homas] Warner, […], →OCLC:
A Native American home, such as teepee or wigwam.
"In my lodge there is only one woman." 1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, Flame on the Frontier; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 28:
(broadly) A Native American home, such as teepee or wigwam. ▸ The people who live in one such home; a household.
(historical) A Native American home, such as teepee or wigwam. ▸ A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals.
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-der.?
Proto-Germanic *laubą
Proto-West Germanic *laub
Proto-Germanic *-jô
Proto-West Germanic *-jō
Frankish *laubijābor.
Early Medieval Latin laubiader.
Old French logebor.
Middle English logge
English lodge
From Middle English logge, from Old French loge (“an arbour, a covered walk-way”).
See also Medieval Latin lobia, laubia; also Old High German louba (“a porch, a gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), Old English lēaf (“leaf, foliage”). Doublet of loggia and lobby.
Meanings
(intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree.
(transitive) To firmly fix in a specified position.
I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.
(intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street.
(intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
Something holy lodges in that breast. 1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
It then becomes necessary for the men to lodge away from home, and at places on the system where large numbers require accommodation regularly, the L.M.S.R. maintains 43 permanent staff hostels. 1947 March and April, “L.M.S.R. Hostels for Trainmen”, in Railway Magazine, page 75:
Stay and lodge by me this night. c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
(transitive) To drive (an animal) to covert.
This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set. When you find and rouse up the stag and buck, they are said to be imprimed: […] 1819, John Mayer, The Sportsman's Directory, or Park and Gamekeeper's Companion:
(transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
(transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
(transitive) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
Powers that are lodged with the cabinet.
He [Harry Maguire] maintains his innocence and has lodged an appeal—which means a retrial and the conviction being set aside in the meantime—[…]. 2020 October 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-1 Denmark: 'Harry Maguire looked devoid of confidence in Nations League loss'”, in BBC Sport:
MPs have moved to lodge a parliamentary motion to strip Prince Andrew of his dukedom, in a rarely permitted move in the Commons. […] On Tuesday, the SNP lodged an early-day motion (EDM) to formally remove Prince Andrew’s title as Duke of York, which he has said he will no longer use. 2025 October 21, Jessica Elgot, “MPs move to lodge parliamentary motion to strip Prince Andrew of dukedom”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
to lodge a complaint
(intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge.
(transitive) To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
hu megakad (to be firmly fixed in a specified position) · got 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (to stay in a boarding-house) · fr demeurer (to stay in any place or shelter) · es meter (to stay in a boarding-house) · hu letarol (to flatten to the ground) · hu lakbért fizet (to stay in a boarding-house) · grc μένω (to stay in a boarding-house) · pt emperrar (to be firmly fixed in a specified position) · bg квартирувам (to stay in a boarding-house) · pt acamar (to flatten to the ground) · mk се сме́сти (to stay in a boarding-house) · fi majoittaa (to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time) · gl albergar (to stay in any place or shelter) · fi panna talteen (to put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety) · ko 묵다 (to stay in a boarding-house) · ru оста́ться (to stay in a boarding-house) · ota اوتورمق (to stay in any place or shelter) · ru остана́вливаться (to stay in a boarding-house) · fr verser (to flatten to the ground) · ja 泊まる (to stay in a boarding-house) · bg подслоня́вам се (to stay in any place or shelter) · gl acoller (to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time) · ja 宿泊 (to stay in a boarding-house) · bg съхраня́вам (to put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety) · ru останови́ться (to stay in a boarding-house) · de logieren (to stay in any place or shelter) · pt alojar (to be firmly fixed in a specified position) · pt acolher (to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time) · hu megdönt (to flatten to the ground) · bg сплесквам (to flatten to the ground) · he לָן (to stay in any place or shelter) · es abatirse (to flatten to the ground) · gl albergar (to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time) · es albergar (to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time) · gl apousentar (to stay in a boarding-house) · bg зася́дам (to be firmly fixed in a specified position) · fr loger (to stay in any place or shelter) · ru пода́ть (to place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities) · hu letétbe helyez (to put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety) · got 𐌲𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌰𐌽 (to stay in any place or shelter) · gl apousentar (to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time) · de festklemmen (to be firmly fixed in a specified position) · bg сплесна (to flatten to the ground) · bg пода́вам (to place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities) · he הֵלִין (to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time) · ar غَلِقَ (to be firmly fixed in a specified position) · hu benyújt (to place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities) · ca ajeure (to flatten to the ground) · fi rekisteröidä (to place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities) · gl pousar (to stay in any place or shelter) · grc μένω (to stay in any place or shelter) · nl herbergen (to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time) · bg подслоня́вам (to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time) · ru застрева́ть (to be firmly fixed in a specified position) · de feststecken (to be firmly fixed in a specified position) · fi asua alivuokralaisena (to stay in a boarding-house) · cmn 卡住 (to be firmly fixed in a specified position) · ru остава́ться (to stay in a boarding-house) · ru подава́ть (to place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities) · ca acollir (to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time) · hu elszállásol (to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time) · fi laota (to flatten to the ground) · ru застря́ть (to be firmly fixed in a specified position) · gl albergar (to stay in a boarding-house) · gl apousentar (to stay in any place or shelter) · enm herberwen (to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time) · de einlegen (to place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities) · es alojar (to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time) · wa flaxhî (to flatten to the ground) · la dēversor (to stay in a boarding-house) · qu chayakamuy (to stay in a boarding-house) · hu bejelent (to place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities) · it alloggiare (to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time) · bg стъпквам (to flatten to the ground) · fi juuttua (to be firmly fixed in a specified position) · bg стъпча (to flatten to the ground) · cmn 寄宿 (to stay in a boarding-house) · ru квартирова́ться (to stay in a boarding-house) · es encamarse (to flatten to the ground) · es meterse (to be firmly fixed in a specified position) · ca allotjar (to supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time) · ko 숙박하다 (to stay in any place or shelter) · fi laottaa (to flatten to the ground)