[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lodge/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [L](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/l/) / lodge # lodge noun (a lodge, lodges); verb (lodge, lodges, lodged, lodging) «lodge» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. A small house or cabin in the country, mountains or a park, used for holidays, hunting or skiing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodge/#m1) 2. A small house at the gate of a big estate, or a porter's room at a school or college. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodge/#m2) 3. (verb) To become stuck firmly somewhere (a bone lodged in its throat). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodge/#m3) 4. (verb) To stay in someone's house and pay rent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodge/#m4) 5. (verb, formal) To officially make a complaint or request (lodge a complaint). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodge/#m5) 6. (noun) A beaver's home. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodge/#m6) 7. A lodge can also be a tent or hut where some Native American peoples live. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodge/#m7) ### In the lessons In stories and holidays: a ski lodge, a hunting lodge. In science: beavers build lodges of sticks and mud. In safety: if food is lodged in someone's throat, get help (first aid). Phrases: lodge a complaint, lodged in, ski lodge. ### Examples - We stayed in a wooden lodge in the mountains. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodge/#x1) - Beavers build a lodge in the river. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodge/#x2) - A fish bone was lodged in his throat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodge/#x3) - The ball lodged in the gutter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodge/#x4) - My parents lodged a complaint about the noise (formal). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodge/#x5) - As a student, Gran lodged with a family in the city. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodge/#x6) - The ski lodge had a big fire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodge/#x7) - Then it was that the people, terror-stricken, ran screaming into their lodges. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodge/#x8) ### Note Noun countable; verb regular (lodged, lodging). Related: lodger (a person who pays to live in someone's home), lodgings (a rented room). Safety: if someone is choking because food is lodged in the throat, call for an adult and emergency help. ## In Jewish tradition It means to stay for the night, as when travelers ask for a place to sleep. Genesis uses it for Rebekah's family offering Abraham's servant room. The prophets and psalms also use it for thoughts or qualities that stay in a person or place, as righteousness lodged in Jerusalem, and for a person who would lodge in the wilderness. **Interpretation.** Tradition praises hospitality, hachnasat orchim, and holds up Abraham and Rebekah's family as examples of welcoming guests. Isaiah's words are read as a lament that the city once full of justice had fallen to murder. ### Examples - Is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?' (Torah GEN.24.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lodge/#x1) - So the present passed over before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp. (Torah GEN.32.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lodge/#x2) - She said moreover unto him: 'We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.' (Torah GEN.24.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lodge/#x3) - How long shall thy baleful thoughts lodge within thee? (Prophets JER.4.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lodge/#x4) - Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. (Writings PSA.55.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lodge/#x5) - She that was full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers. (Prophets ISA.1.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lodge/#x6) ### Note Noun countable; verb regular (lodged, lodging). Related: lodger (a person who pays to live in someone's home), lodgings (a rented room). Safety: if someone is choking because food is lodged in the throat, call for an adult and emergency help. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «lodge» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodge/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«lodge» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lodge.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «lodge» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/lodge/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«lodge» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/lodge.html) on Mova free.