lodge
/lɑd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.08 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
noun
Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
noun
A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
noun
A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
Example Sentences
- "[H]e walked across Hawthorn Tree Court on his way to the porter's lodge. […] At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole."
- "the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands"
- ""In my lodge there is only one woman.""
- "The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals."
- "The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree."
- "I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-der.? Proto-Germanic *laubą Proto-West Germanic *laub Proto-Germanic *-jô Proto-West Germanic *-jō Frankish *laubijābor. Early Medieval Latin laubiader. Old French logebor. Middle English logge English lodge From Middle English logge, from Old French loge (“an arbour, a covered walk-way”). See also Medieval Latin lobia, laubia; also Old High German louba (“a porch, a gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), Old English lēaf (“leaf, foliage”). Doublet of loggia and lobby.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /lɑd͡ʒ/
- British English: /lɒd͡ʒ/