as in rooming house
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Recent Examples of lodging house
Reserve a simple lodging house or a two-bedroom apartment.
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Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2024
While unwilling to engage with gangs of vacationing children, Anchorage police did arrest and jail one man for repeatedly leaving his lodging house.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2020
The response was sometimes harsh -- any lodging house where an infection appeared was burnt to the ground.
—Paul French, CNN, 18 Apr. 2020
Meanwhile, after Crossing Over left the Mount Vernon Street house and moved into the 29 Nutting St. triple-decker, a city inspector declared that Flagg was using the property as a lodging house, not allowed in his residential zone.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2019
Everything else loomed large — the condition of the tenements, the perils of the ghetto, the moral dangers of the kitchenette, the risks presented by too many bodies forced into the cramped rooms of the lodging house.
—Longreads, 20 July 2019
His father, Feodor, looked after the family farm and his mother, Berta, ran a lodging house on the property during the summer.
—Fortune, 28 Jan. 2018
Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2024
While unwilling to engage with gangs of vacationing children, Anchorage police did arrest and jail one man for repeatedly leaving his lodging house.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2020
The response was sometimes harsh -- any lodging house where an infection appeared was burnt to the ground.
—Paul French, CNN, 18 Apr. 2020
Meanwhile, after Crossing Over left the Mount Vernon Street house and moved into the 29 Nutting St. triple-decker, a city inspector declared that Flagg was using the property as a lodging house, not allowed in his residential zone.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2019
Everything else loomed large — the condition of the tenements, the perils of the ghetto, the moral dangers of the kitchenette, the risks presented by too many bodies forced into the cramped rooms of the lodging house.
—Longreads, 20 July 2019
His father, Feodor, looked after the family farm and his mother, Berta, ran a lodging house on the property during the summer.
—Fortune, 28 Jan. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lodging house
Noun
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Writer Wallace Thurman would throw parties at his rooming house, attracting a more bohemian crowd from Harlem and the Village.—
Shannon J. Effinger,
AFAR Media,
18 Mar. 2025
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Coney lived with his father in a rooming house next door.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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No special arrangements have been made at the Domus Santa Marta, the Vatican hotel next to the basilica, where Francis lives in a two-room suite on the second floor, according to the AP.—
Danielle Wallace,
Fox News,
23 Mar. 2025
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But the trend has lately been expanding well beyond hotels.—
Susan Campos,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This fine establishment has sat at the same address in the Williamsburg Bridge's shadow since 1887, and the interiors carry about as many frills as your average public house—dark wood, plaster walls, and so on.—
Charlie Hobbs,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Dec. 2024
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The London-style public house is a unique offering that complements its rooftop neighbor, the Monarch Club.—
Annalise Frank,
Axios,
17 Dec. 2024
Cite this Entry
“Lodging house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lodging%20house. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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