lodging house
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3.6
- noun
- /ˈlɒdʒɪŋ haʊs/
- UK
:
casa de huéspedes
- During her travels, she stayed at a lodging house that offered affordable rates for tourists.
Examples
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He had to rely on an old copy of Lindley Murray, lent to him by a kind old schoolmaster in his first London lodging house, when he arrived from Cornwall, penniless, in 1821.
Academic text (1998) -
This is the lodging house for newsboys.
Fiction book (1992) -
Now, where might I find a lodging house?
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Oh, my partner and I have arrangements with the low lodging houses in the West Port.
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Crowding into the many lodging houses in these areas were thousands of Irish migrants.
Academic text (1993) -
A young smudge-faced newsie runs up and peeks into the window of the lodging house.
Fiction book (1992) -
Again they were escorted to the agent's office, bought their steamship ticket, and were accommodated in a lodging house.
Academic text (1993) -
For the less well-to-do emigrants, the lodging houses of Queenstown offered a cheaper alternative.
Academic text (1993) -
Jointly with the hotel "Stadt Warschau," for up to 500 Jewish emigrants, and several other lodging houses, the city could offer accommodation for about 6,000 transit migrants.
Academic text (1993) -
For a number of years, the most famous lodging house in Queenstown that catered exclusively to female emigrants was the O'Brien Emigrants Home run by philanthropist Charlotte O'Brien.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
170
3.4
A small house near nature where travelers stay temporarily
50
3.4
A place where you stay for a short time or a short stay there
34
2.1
A cheap place for travelers or students to sleep, often with shared rooms and facilities
21
2.5
A small building near a house where visitors stay
7
3.7
A house where people rent single rooms and share bathrooms or a kitchen
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4.8
A house where people pay to live and get meals
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8.0
A place like a hotel that offers rooms for travelers to stay overnight
Temporary rooms you rent to stay in for a short time
A building that offers rooms for people to stay for a short time
How Permanent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'lodging' (a place to stay) and 'house' (a building): it denotes a house that provides lodging. This is a straightforward noun+noun composition with no idiomatic or metaphorical shift, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand it.
Etymology
The phrase lodging house comes from the old word lodge, which meant a small shelter where travelers could sleep. So today, lodging house means a house that rents rooms for people 'to stay' for short or long times.