lodge
noun
[ lɒdʒ ]
• a small house at the gates of a park or in the grounds of a large house, occupied by a gatekeeper, gardener, or other employee.
• a branch or meeting place of an organization such as the Freemasons.
• "the foundation of the Grand Lodge of England"
Similar:
section,
branch,
chapter,
wing,
association,
society,
group,
club,
union,
guild,
fraternity,
brotherhood,
sorority,
alliance,
coterie,
league,
sodality,
lodge
verb
• present (a complaint, appeal, claim, etc.) formally to the proper authorities.
• "he has 28 days in which to lodge an appeal"
Similar:
submit,
register,
enter,
put forward,
place,
advance,
lay,
present,
press,
bring,
prefer,
tender,
proffer,
put on record,
record,
file,
table,
• make or become firmly fixed or embedded in a place.
• "they had to remove a bullet lodged near his spine"
Similar:
become fixed,
embed itself,
become embedded,
become implanted,
get/become stuck,
stick,
catch,
wedge,
become caught,
become settled,
anchor itself,
become anchored,
come to rest,
remain,
• rent accommodation in another person's house.
• "the man who lodged in the room next door"
Similar:
reside,
board,
stay,
have lodgings,
have rooms,
take a room,
put up,
live,
be quartered,
stop,
occupy,
room,
have digs,
dwell,
be domiciled,
sojourn,
abide,
• (of wind or rain) flatten (a standing crop).
• "the variety is high yielding, but it has mostly lodged"
Origin:
Middle English loge, via Old French loge ‘arbour, hut’ from medieval Latin laubia, lobia (see lobby), of Germanic origin; related to German Laube ‘arbour’.
