Meanings
- pluralplural of lodging
- pluralplural onlyA room or set of rooms in another person's house where a person lodges.
Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC - historicalpluralplural onlyA furnished room or suite of rooms rented within a private house as a temporary or semi-permanent accommodation, often including a baseline of domestic service.
'[…] I saw her placed in comfortable lodgings, and under proper attendants; I visited her every day during the rest of her short life; I was with her in her last moments.'
1811, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC - pluralplural onlyAn official residence.
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Finnish huone, huoneet
- huoneroom or set of rooms in another person's house where a person lodges
- huoneetroom or set of rooms in another person's house where a person lodges
- luukkuroom or set of rooms in another person's house where a person lodges
- boksiroom or set of rooms in another person's house where a person lodges
- residenssiofficial residence
- asuntoofficial residence
Hungarian albérlet
- albérletroom or set of rooms in another person's house where a person lodges
Irish lóistín
- lóistínroom or set of rooms in another person's house where a person lodges
Latin hospitium
- hospitiumroom or set of rooms in another person's house where a person lodges
Polish stancja, rezydencja
- stancjaroom or set of rooms in another person's house where a person lodges
- rezydencjaofficial residence
Russian жильё, жили́ще
- жильё (žilʹjó)room or set of rooms in another person's house where a person lodges
- жили́ще (žilíšče)room or set of rooms in another person's house where a person lodges
- берло́га (berlóga)room or set of rooms in another person's house where a person lodges
Cite this entry
lodgings. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lodgings
“lodgings.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lodgings. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lodgings,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lodgings.
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