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LODGE IN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lodge in mean?
• LODGE IN (verb)
The verb LODGE IN has 1 sense:
1. live (in a certain place)
Familiarity information: LODGE IN used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Live (in a certain place)
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
Context example:
he occupies two rooms on the top floor
Hypernyms (to "lodge in" is one way to...):
dwell; inhabit; live; populate (be an inhabitant of or reside in)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lodge in"):
move in (occupy a place)
stay at (reside temporarily)
squat (occupy (a dwelling) illegally)
crash (occupy, usually uninvited)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Context examples
When it grew towards evening, the master horse ordered a place for me to lodge in; it was but six yards from the house and separated from the stable of the Yahoos.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It ended in a curving staircase, with the commissionnaire’s lodge in the passage at the bottom.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was the keeper of a low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings transform myself into a well-dressed man about town.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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