lodged

verbbecome fixed or wedged
verbstay at temporary residence

Synonyms for lodged

verb become fixed or wedged

Antonyms for lodged

placed

adjective. established

Word Origin & History

mid-13c. in surnames and place names; late 13c. as "small building or hut," from Old French loge "arbor, covered walk; hut, cabin, grandstand at a tournament," from Frankish *laubja "shelter" (cf. Old High German louba "porch, gallery," German Laube "bower, arbor"), from Proto-Germanic *laubja- "shelter," likely originally "shelter of foliage," or "roof made from bark," from root of leaf (n.).

"Hunter's cabin" sense is first recorded late 14c. Sense of "local branch of a society" is first recorded 1680s, from mid-14c. logge "workshop of masons." Also used of certain American Indian buildings, hence lodge-pole (1805). Feste of Logges (c.1400) was a Middle English rendition of the Old Testament Jewish Feast of Tabernacles.

Example Sentences for lodged

The mandate was obeyed, and Bates was lodged in the forecastle, securely ironed.

Isabel was lodged at the court of France, and treated with distinction.

I was surprised by the excellence of the hotel at which I was lodged.

Of course we were lodged and fed, in waiting for the schooner to come in.

Mr. Cooper informed me when he would be in town, and where he lodged.

He rose from his seat, and walked the narrow room in which he lodged.

I brought the child home to his own house, and lodged him in the front garret.

I have lodged the needful in the bank, to purchase a commission for you, my son.

And it was all caused by Ambroise throwing a ball, which had lodged itself on a tree.

This afternoon, a complaint was lodged at Headquarters with reference to the theft of a bear!

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More words related to lodged

jammed

placed