1. Structures collectively in which people are housed
   "The university provided lodging for all first-year students";
   - housing, living accommodations
    
2. The act of lodging
   "They found lodging in a small inn for the night"
    
3. The state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily
   "the lodging of the balloon in the tree";
   - lodgment, lodgement

1. Be a lodger; stay temporarily
   "Where are you lodging in Paris?"
    
2. Provide housing for
   "We are lodging three foreign students this semester";
   - accommodate
    
3. Put, fix, force, or implant
   "lodge a bullet in the table";
   - wedge, stick, deposit
    
4. Place a formal charge against
   "They lodged a complaint with the management";
   - charge, file
    
5. Put money or valuables in a safe place or safe hands
   "He lodged his savings in a high-interest account"
    
6. Flatten to the ground
   "The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge"

Derived forms: lodgings

Type of: abidance, accuse, allegation, construction, criminate, domiciliate [rare], dwell, fasten, fastness, fix, fixedness, fixity, fixture, house, impeach, incriminate, inhabit, live, populate, put up, residence, residency, secure, secureness, structure

Encyclopedia: Lodging