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as in hotel
a place that provides rooms and usually a public dining room for overnight guests
when we go on our country vacation, we always stay at this little lodge in the middle of nowhere
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as in clubhouse
the meeting place of an organization
the Masons meet at the lodge every Thursday evening
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as in to house
to provide with living quarters or shelter
the landlord can legally lodge up to 20 people in his apartment building at one time
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as in to park
to establish or place comfortably or snugly
our pet guinea pig lodged himself in the far corner of his cage and simply refused to come out
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as in to root
to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matter
the gunman had managed to lodge a bullet in my back, just inches from my spine
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Recent Examples of lodge
Anna Fiorentino, AFAR Media, 28 Feb. 2025
Meals are served in the main lodge by the warmth of two fireplaces and are a celebration of local fare with ingredients like arctic char, moose, bear, reindeer, cloudberries, spruce, and lingonberries.
—Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2025
Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2025
Reason this physician needs to heal herself: Partial retrograde amnesia as a result of a traumatic brain injury that left a piece of skull permanently lodged in her brain.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 3 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Ride down to the all-ages spring dance-off, Woolly’s Dance Party held weekly at the base lodge.
—Anna Fiorentino, AFAR Media, 28 Feb. 2025
Meals are served in the main lodge by the warmth of two fireplaces and are a celebration of local fare with ingredients like arctic char, moose, bear, reindeer, cloudberries, spruce, and lingonberries.
—Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2025
Verb
Katz's family was the first to reach an undisclosed settlement with the chain in October after lodging a wrongful death suit.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2025
Reason this physician needs to heal herself: Partial retrograde amnesia as a result of a traumatic brain injury that left a piece of skull permanently lodged in her brain.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 3 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lodge
Noun
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The hotel food facility was cited by county inspectors for unsafe food and another major violation.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Question: Will the new hotel tax hike be enough to expand the convention center?—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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On top of that, sunny orange-yellow flowers complement the brilliant pinks and purples of zinnia blooms beautifully, and these two plants are often used together in bouquets or cottage garden designs.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Apr. 2025
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Guests can check into a Pueblo-style suite complete with a private soaking tub, the cottages, a room in the 1917 Historic Hotel, or even a vintage trailer.—
Maggie Fuller,
AFAR Media,
1 Apr. 2025
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Others inside Houston’s clubhouse are tasked with that responsibility, but only one is performing to that level.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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The season remains in its infancy, but the excitement surrounding Lee in the Giants’ clubhouse is palpable.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
5 Apr. 2025
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For his first day of work in June 1999, Scott Smith arrived at the makeshift bat factory, a three-level brick corner house in Ottawa with a stop sign sprouting up from the tree-lawn shrubs.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Plus, there’s a two-level guest house with its own kitchen and living area.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
7 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Vacationers who were camping nearby tried to capture the dog, but she got spooked and darted off into the wilderness.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 Apr. 2025
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When camping in an open environment, select a campsite in a valley, ravine, or low region.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
1 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The incident happened near 10 O Street in South Boston, where the vehicle was parked by the curb.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Electric vehicles parked in the Hangzhou section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.—
Zeyi Yang,
Wired News,
2 Apr. 2025
Verb
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According to Castro, what makes the Trump administration’s revocations unique is that they are sometimes rooted on the exercise of free speech – a basis that could eventually be challenged in court.—
Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
31 Mar. 2025
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Those runners root themselves in the soil near the mother plant.—
Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 Mar. 2025
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Save on lodging Instead of staying at a hotel, consider a hostel.—
NerdWallet,
Mercury News,
28 Mar. 2025
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The Singapore address led to a hostel building within the campus of the Management Development Institute of Singapore, but the company could not be located during a Reuters visit.—
AJ Vicens,
USA TODAY,
25 Mar. 2025
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“Lodge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lodge. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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