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# lodging

«lodging» in Mova's school dictionary: **A place to stay for a short time, such as a room in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (lodging, lodgings — often plural in UK); also the -ing form of the verb lodge

### meaning for a pupil

1) A place to stay for a short time, such as a room in someone's house or an inn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodging/#m1)

2) Lodgings (UK): a rented room or rooms in a house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodging/#m2)

3) The -ing form of «lodge»: staying somewhere as a paying guest, or getting stuck somewhere (a bone lodging in the throat). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodging/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories travellers look for «food and lodging» for the night. In maths problems lodging is a cost: the price of a room per night times the number of nights. Phrases: board and lodging (meals and a room), lodging house.

### examples

- The travellers paid for food and lodging at the inn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodging/#x1)
- Lodging in the city is very expensive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodging/#x2)
- He lived in lodgings near the university. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodging/#x3)
- Lodging costs $40 a night, so 3 nights cost $120. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodging/#x4)
- They found cheap lodging by the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodging/#x5)
- The student is lodging with an old couple. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodging/#x6)
- A fish bone was lodging in her throat, so they went to the doctor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodging/#x7)
- He asked them for a night's lodging. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lodging/#x8)

### note

«Lodging» as an uncountable noun: «lodging is cheap»; «lodgings» in British English means rented rooms. Spelling: no «e» — lodge → lodging. In maths, total lodging = price per night × nights.

### In the corpora

- [They are gone over the pass; they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah trembleth; Gibeath-shaul is fled.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.245/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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