Lodg·ing, n.
  1. The act of one who, or that which, lodges.
  2. A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning.
     Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow.   --Pope.
  3. Abiding place; harbor; cover.
     Fair bosom . . . the lodging of delight.   --Spenser.
  Lodging house, a house where lodgings are provided and let.
  Lodging room, a room in which a person lodges, esp. a hired room.
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  lodging house
       n : a house where rooms are rented [syn: rooming house]