lodge

lodge is a 5-letter English word with 26 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 26 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge.
2. noun. A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate.
3. noun. A den or cave.
4. noun. The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.
5. noun. The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
6. noun. The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also platt.
7. noun. A collection of objects lodged together.
8. noun. A family of North American Indians, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge, -- as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons; as, the tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals.
9. intransitive verb. To rest or remain a lodge house, or other shelter; to rest; to stay; to abide; esp., to sleep at night; as, to lodge in York Street.
10. intransitive verb. To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
11. intransitive verb. To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree.
12. noun. To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold.
13. noun. To drive to shelter; to track to covert.
14. noun. To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal.
15. noun. To cause to stop or rest in; to implant.
16. noun. To lay down; to prostrate.
17. noun. a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers

    Synonyms: auberge, hostel, hostelry, inn

18. noun. any of various Native American dwellings
19. noun. a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter
20. noun. small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener
21. noun. a formal association of people with similar interests

    "he joined a golf club"

    "they formed a small lunch society"

    Synonyms: club, gild, guild, order, society

22. noun. English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940)
23. verb. file a formal charge against

    "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife"

    Synonyms: charge, file

24. verb. put, fix, force, or implant

    "lodge a bullet in the table"

    "stick your thumb in the crack"

    Synonyms: deposit, stick, wedge

25. verb. provide housing for

    "We are lodging three foreign students this semester"

    Synonyms: accommodate

26. verb. be a lodger; stay temporarily

    "Where are you lodging in Paris?"

Synonyms

auberge, hostel, hostelry, inn, club, gild, guild, order, society, charge, file, deposit, stick, wedge, accommodate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lodge:

godel, ogled

Common word forms

lodged, lodger, lodges, lodging, lodgeful, lodgeable, lodgement

Words from these letters

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