If you are provided with lodging or lodgings, you are provided with a place to stay for a period of time. You can use lodgings to refer to one or more of these places.
He was given free lodging in a three-room flat. [+ in]
...travel expenses including meals and lodgings while traveling away from home.
2. countable noun [usually plural]
If you live in lodgings, you live in a room or rooms in someone's house and you pay them for this.
David had changed his lodgings, leaving no address behind.
Many of the single men found lodgings in the surrounding villages.
3. See also board and lodging
More Synonyms of lodging
lodging in British English
(ˈlɒdʒɪŋ)
noun
1.
a temporary residence
2. (sometimes plural)
sleeping accommodation
3. (sometimes plural)
(at Oxford University) the residence of the head of a college
lodging in American English
(ˈlɑdʒɪŋ)
noun
1.
the act of one that lodges
2.
a place to live in, esp. temporarily; quarters
3. [pl.]
a room or rooms rented in a private home
Word origin
ME loggyng: see , lodge verb transitive
Examples of 'lodging' in a sentence
lodging
Dogs show gratitude for their free board and lodging.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
If you are trekking, basic food and lodgings are all part of the fun.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
All volunteers cover their own food and lodging.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Their smiling slide from need to greed takes lodgings in your brain.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
She must quit that place and take a quiet lodging.
William Thackeray Vanity Fair (1837)
You earn up to 320 per week with free lodgings and perks.
The Sun (2010)
The premise is simple: you provide the graft and your host provides board and lodging.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
He was tipped off by local residents, and moved undetected to a new lodging.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Many visitors had to find lodging miles away, though some came prepared to camp.
Christianity Today (2000)
We no longer have to pay any more food, lodging and medical bills.
The Sun (2015)
She had her keep, her board and lodgings and five or six shillings a week.
Max Arthur Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who WereThere (2006)
Out of that you had to take out your lodgings, and all your expenses.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
About noon the king returned to his lodging, to take some refreshment after his fatigue.
Frederick Marryat The Children of the New Forest (1847)
From this they had to pay for lodging and food, and to repay their employer his expenses.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Unless they want to go of their own free will they are not turned out into the street after being given a temporary lodging.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
I got free board and lodgings and a great experience.
The Sun (2009)
Nursing really was a vocation then; the pay was minimal but uniforms and board and lodging were provided.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
In the big lodging house in the town square, the salesmen passing through each have their own distinctive napkin ring.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The farmer's wife used to get nine shillings a week for my board and lodging and she had the lot.
Max Arthur Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who WereThere (2006)
As an itinerant king he adapted each new lodging to provide a suite of royal chambers similar to those in an English palace.
The Times Literary Supplement (2008)
They are also helping those who end up being evicted to find lodgings in empty homes, many of them owned by the banks.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
That price includes food, lodging and entertainment, but not flights.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
You have to be clear that you would be delighted to have your cousin's son to stay and will happily give him board and lodging.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Of that, about 40 goes into a charitable trust and an undisclosed sum goes towards food and lodging.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Annual boarding fees are 9,500 to cover food and lodgings, but there are no tuition fees for any pupils.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
In other languages
lodging
British English: lodging NOUN
If you are provided with lodging or lodgings, you are provided with a place to stay for a period of time.
He was given free lodging.
American English: lodging
Brazilian Portuguese: alojamento
Chinese: 寄宿处
European Spanish: alojamiento
French: logement
German: Unterkunft
Italian: alloggio
Japanese: 宿
Korean: 숙소
European Portuguese: alojamento
Latin American Spanish: alojamiento
Chinese translation of 'lodging'
lodging
(ˈlɔdʒɪŋ)
n
(u) (= accommodation) 宿处(處) (sùchù)
Derived Forms
lodgingsn pl租住的房子 (zūzhù de fángzi)
lodge
(lɔdʒ)
vi
[person]
to lodge (with)寄宿 (jìsù)
(= get stuck)[bullet]射入 (shèrù)
vt
[complaint, protest, appeal]提出 (tíchū)
n(c)
(at entrance) 小屋 (xiǎowū) (间(間), jiān)
(= hunting lodge) 小屋 (xiǎowū) (间(間), jiān)
(noun)
Definition
a rented room or rooms in another person's home
He was given free meals and lodgings.
Synonyms
accommodation
The government is to provide accommodation for 3,000 homeless people.
rooms
boarding
apartments
quarters
digs (British, informal)
shelter
residence
There was a stabbing at a residence next door.
dwelling (formal, literary)
Three thousand new dwellings are planned.
abode
I went round the streets and found his new abode.
habitation (formal)
Behind the habitations, the sandstone cliffs rose abruptly.
bachelor apartment (Canadian)
Additional synonyms
in the sense of abode
Definition
one's home
I went round the streets and found his new abode.
Synonyms
home,
house,
quarters,
lodging,
pad (slang, old-fashioned),
residence,
habitat,
dwelling (formal, literary),
habitation (formal),
domicile,
dwelling place
in the sense of dwelling
Definition
a place of residence
Three thousand new dwellings are planned.
Synonyms
home,
house,
residence,
abode,
quarters,
establishment,
lodging,
pad (slang, old-fashioned),
habitation,
domicile,
dwelling house,
whare (New Zealand)
in the sense of habitation
Definition
a dwelling place
Behind the habitations, the sandstone cliffs rose abruptly.