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  • noun temporary living quarters.

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  • noun Plural form of lodging.
  • noun A room or set of rooms in another person's house where a person lodges.
  • noun An official residence.

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

  • noun temporary living quarters

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Examples

  • Where to stay: Numerous mid-level chain lodgings are located outside the historic downtown area.

    Mark Twain's celebrated Missouri hometown is jumping again 2010

  • Whatever may be the end of the susbscription, or of your more immediate exertions, Sir, to serve me, I cannot hesitate to inform you that the clothing my youngest daughter, and the entire support of my Son in lodgings, still call for what I cannot continue to give without thus soliciting and obtaining something to keep the wheels going which I have put in motion.

    Letter 317 2009

  • Horton, Mr: Bloomfield's landlord and employer when he lived in lodgings, working as a shoemaker, in

    Index of People 2009

  • We went on being very sorry about Miss Sandal being so poor, and it was not our fault that when we tried to let the house in lodgings, the first lodger proved to be a lunatic of the deepest dye.

    New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

  • Letting lodgings is one of the most unpleasant of all possible ways of earning your living, and I advise you to try every other honest way of earning your living before you take to that.

    The House of Arden Edith 1923

  • London, and went several times to see Isabel, who was ill in lodgings in

    The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897

  • We are in lodgings here: I have a quiet room, and sleep better.

    New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

  • I made up my mind that I would never confess to my small harmless Etna in German lodgings again, and would bolt the door while I boiled water for tea in it.

    Home Life in Germany Alfred Sidgwick 1894

  • Simple Life, to be sure; but if you are in German lodgings for any length of time you probably desire for one reason or the other to lead it.

    Home Life in Germany Alfred Sidgwick 1894

  • She is now at Dover, in lodgings, for the benefit of sea air; and has invited me there since

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

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