1. Living quarters or accommodation
   "The students found affordable lodgings near the university campus";
   - diggings [Brit, archaic], digs [informal], pad [informal], crib [N. Amer, informal]

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

Type of: abidance, allegation, construction, fastness, fixedness, fixity, fixture, living quarters, quarters, residence, residency, secureness, structure

Encyclopedia: Lodgings