lodge

Everyday

1. A small house or cabin in the country, mountains or a park, used for holidays, hunting or skiing. tree →
2. A small house at the gate of a big estate, or a porter's room at a school or college. tree →
3. (verb) To become stuck firmly somewhere (a bone lodged in its throat). tree →
4. (verb) To stay in someone's house and pay rent. tree →
5. (verb, formal) To officially make a complaint or request (lodge a complaint). tree →
6. (noun) A beaver's home. tree →
7. A lodge can also be a tent or hut where some Native American peoples live. tree →

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 →
• Beavers build a lodge in the river. tree →
• A fish bone was lodged in his throat. tree →
• The ball lodged in the gutter. tree →
• My parents lodged a complaint about the noise (formal). tree →
• As a student, Gran lodged with a family in the city. tree →
• The ski lodge had a big fire. tree →
• Then it was that the people, terror-stricken, ran screaming into their lodges. tree →

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 →
• So the present passed over before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp. (Torah GEN.32.21, JPS 1917) tree →
• She said moreover unto him: 'We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.' (Torah GEN.24.25, JPS 1917) tree →
• How long shall thy baleful thoughts lodge within thee? (Prophets JER.4.14, JPS 1917) tree →
• Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. (Writings PSA.55.8, JPS 1917) tree →
• She that was full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers. (Prophets ISA.1.21, JPS 1917) tree →

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.