lodge

Noun

• a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers

• any of various Native American dwellings

• a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter

• small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener

• a formal association of people with similar interests
  • he joined a golf club
    
  • they formed a small lunch society
    
  • men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today
    

• English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940)

Verb

• provide housing for
  • We are lodging three foreign students this semester
    

• file a formal charge against
  • The suspect was charged with murdering his wife
    

• put, fix, force, or implant
  • lodge a bullet in the table
    
  • stick your thumb in the crack
    

• be a lodger; stay temporarily
  • Where are you lodging in Paris?
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  hostel , hostelry , inn , auberge , indian lodge , hunting lodge , club , social club , society , guild , gild , order , Lodge , Sir Oliver Lodge , Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge , accommodate , charge , file , wedge , stick , deposit
• Antonyms: 
  dislodge , free