Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A place to live.
  • noun Sleeping accommodations.
  • noun Furnished rooms in another's house rented for accommodation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A place of temporary residence; especially, a room or rooms hired for residence in the house of another: often used in this sense in the plural with a singular meaning.
  • noun Place of abode; harbor; cover.
  • noun Place of rest.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of one who, or that which, lodges.
  • noun A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning.
  • noun Abiding place; harbor; cover.
  • noun a house where lodgings are provided and let.
  • noun a room in which a person lodges, esp. a hired room.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A place to live or lodge.
  • noun sleeping accommodation.
  • noun in the plural Furnished rooms in a house rented as accommodation.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily
  • noun the act of lodging
  • noun structures collectively in which people are housed

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  • Rice and wheat plants are susceptible to lodging - falling over because stems and leaves are not sufficiently stiff to withstand winds and rain, making mechanical harvest difficult or impossible. Agriculturalists have studied methods to increase stem and leaf stiffness in plants.

    February 9, 2010