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porter's lodge en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A building for the porter(s) near the gate of a castle, college, etc., (historical) formerly used as a place of punishment for the staff.
   • The keys... were on Saturday stolen from the porter's lodge. 1819 August 30, Times, page 2:
2. (Canada, UK) An equivalent room near the gate of a college, chiefly used as a 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:

Forms

Deriveds

plodge

Synonyms

lodge (all) · mailroom (room) · plodge (all) · guardhouse (building)

Translations (15)

fr conciergerie (lodge besides the entrance to an estate) · sv grindstuga (lodge besides the entrance to an estate) · es portería (lodge besides the entrance to an estate) · es conserjería (lodge besides the entrance to an estate) · hu portásfülke (lodge besides the entrance to an estate) · it gabbiotto (lodge besides the entrance to an estate) · pl portiernia (lodge besides the entrance to an estate) · it guardiola (lodge besides the entrance to an estate) · ru сторо́жка (lodge besides the entrance to an estate) · da portnerloge (lodge besides the entrance to an estate) · da portnerkontor (lodge besides the entrance to an estate) · el θυρωρείο (lodge besides the entrance to an estate) · izh vahtihoone (lodge besides the entrance to an estate) · it portineria (lodge besides the entrance to an estate) · eu atezaindegi (lodge besides the entrance to an estate)