Noun: lodge
| Singular | lodge |
| Plural | lodges |
Sample Sentences
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[H]e walked across Hawthorn Tree Court on his way to the porter's lodge. […] At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole. [1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 39:]
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the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands [1720, [Daniel Defoe], The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton, London: […] J[ohn] Brotherton, […], J[ohn] Graves […], A[nne] Dodd, […], and T[homas] Warner, […], →OCLC:]
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The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals.
Nouns inflected like lodge
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-der.?
3. Proto-Germanic *laubą
4. Proto-West Germanic *laub
5. Proto-Germanic *-jô
6. Proto-West Germanic *-jō
7. Frankish *laubijābor.
8. Early Medieval Latin laubiader.
9. Old French logebor.
10. Middle English logge
11. English lodge
12. From Middle English logge, from Old French loge (“an arbour, a covered walk-way”).
13. 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. See: Middle English Nouns '
logge', German Nouns '
Laube'.
Verbs referencing "lodge"
Finnish Nouns
loosi.