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# lodger

«lodger» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who pays to live in a room in someone else's…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a lodger, lodgers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who pays to live in a room in someone else's house, often sharing the kitchen and bathroom with the family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodger/#m1)

2) (rare) Anyone staying for a time in a place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodger/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, and in stories (especially British ones), a family might «take in a lodger» to earn extra money. It tells the reader the person is not family but lives in the house. Phrases: take in a lodger, have a lodger, a lodger's room.

### examples

- We have a lodger who lives in the spare room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodger/#x1)
- The lodger pays rent every week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodger/#x2)
- Mrs Brown took in a lodger after her children left home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodger/#x3)
- Our lodger is a student from Canada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodger/#x4)
- The lodger shares our kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodger/#x5)
- In the story, the strange lodger never came out of his room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodger/#x6)
- My aunt was a lodger when she first moved to London. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodger/#x7)
- As soon as her work was over the old woman came and sat down with her lodgers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodger/#x8)

### note

Countable: lodgers. Related: lodge (to stay or to let someone stay), lodging(s) (a room to rent). In American English «roomer» or «boarder» is also used; a boarder usually gets meals too. Different from a tenant, who rents a whole flat or house.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lodger» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodger/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.