lodge

Definitions

• A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
• a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK) as a college mailroom.
• A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
• (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
• A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
• A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
• A den or cave.
• The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
• (mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
• A collection of objects lodged together.
• An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.