LODGINGS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Temporary living quarters

Synonyms:

diggings; digs; domiciliation; lodgings; pad

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("lodgings" is a kind of...):

living quarters; quarters (housing available for people to live in)

Derivation:

lodge (provide housing for)

lodge (be a lodger; stay temporarily)

He has been written to by Mr. Murdstone, on the subject of your lodgings, and he will receive you as a lodger.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The man’s name is Henry Wood, and he lives in lodgings in this same street in which the ladies met him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There I saw the empress and the young princes, in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He came only to engage lodgings for us.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“I have given you the chance. Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before I leave.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She then took a large house in Edward-street, and has since maintained herself by letting lodgings.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It is not fit that he should be living about at his own charge now, at lodgings and taverns.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Away to your lodgings, and come not nigh the prince until the armorer hath placed the true charge upon your shield.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His Pall Mall lodgings, the Diogenes Club, Whitehall—that is his cycle.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Anyway, she took a house just two streets off and let lodgings to sailors.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)