Lodger

Word LODGER
Character 6
Hyphenation lodg er
Pronunciations /ˈlɑdʒɚ/

Definitions and meanings of "Lodger"

What do we mean by lodger?

One that lodges, especially one who rents and lives in a furnished room. noun

One who lodges; especially, one who lives in a hired room or rooms in the house of another. noun

One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house. noun

A person who lodges in another's house (compare tenant). noun

A tenant in someone's house noun

A person who lodges in another's house (compare tenant).

Synonyms and Antonyms for Lodger

The word "lodger" in example sentences

However, he consoled himself with what was in truth a rare consolation for a budding lover, that he was under the same roof with Lizzy; her guest, in fact, to take a poetical view of the term lodger; and that he would certainly see her on the morrow. ❋ Unknown (2006)

If you don't want a long-term lodger, consider instead a short-term homestay. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And she never did understand it until one day she learned that her lodger was the "very young man who had been to the war in the Philippines, and writ about his battles in the Enterprise." ❋ Harry Steele Morrison (N/A)

However odd he might be, Mrs. Bunting never forgot her lodger was a gentleman. ❋ Marie Belloc Lowndes (1907)

Wilson had not been long in the tailor's cottage before Sim seemed to grow uneasy under a fresh anxiety, of which his lodger was the subject. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)

She imagined that her lodger was a young lady who for some reason had run away from her friends. ❋ Unknown (1881)

"Aw dooant think it does bi 'th' luk on thi, if tha gooas on tha'll be able ta tak a lodger i 'that suit o' clooas, tha'll ha room enuff, -- but tak care o 'thisen, lad." ❋ John Hartley (1877)

The landlady, in her moments of good humor, used to assert her belief that her lodger was a disguised prince; but if this were the case, he was certainly one that had been overtaken by poverty. ❋ ��mile Gaboriau (1852)

I told him I knew where there was a lady who occasionally admitted an inmate to her house, which was a large one, but she must be satisfied that her lodger is a gentleman. ❋ Unknown (1847)

The main benefit of taking in a lodger is the fact you don't have to tackle the mortgage on your own. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Eventually Scotland Yard gets into the act, but even the inspector assigned to the case doesn't believe the lodger is his man.

a credit to the wife of a Connecticut deacon, she discovered the fact that her lodger was a minister, she did two things, with equal and immediate fervour; she brought out the big Bible and asked him to conduct evening worship, and she produced a bottle of old Glenlivet and begged him to "guard against takkin 'cauld by takkin' a glass of speerits." ❋ Henry Van Dyke (1892)

Other specific objections were made - for example, SACTU called for an end to the 'lodger's fee', whereby the Municipality could charge for children sixteen years or over living at home with their parents. ❋ Unknown (1980)

With the exception of three, all were supposedly written from London, which would have placed the Ripper - or Sickert - in London during the time of the "lodger" and slaughterhouse woman news reports. ❋ Cornwell, Patricia (1930)

The landlord, who is not named in the story, said he was convinced that the Ripper had rented rooms in his house, and that this "lodger" would come in "about four o'clock in the morning," when everybody was asleep. ❋ Cornwell, Patricia (1930)

He may even have lurked somewhere behind the curtain of the next act, an account of which was printed right under the story about the "lodger" in the Weekly Dispatch. ❋ Cornwell, Patricia (1930)

The "lodger," as he used to call himself at one time, who went out early and came back late, could sometimes spare half an hour just before or after dinner to draw wonderful pictures for the little ones, and these were memorable occasions. ❋ Huxley, Leonard (1900)

The "lodger," as he used to describe himself, who went out early and came back late, could sometimes spare half-an-hour just before or just after dinner to draw wonderful pictures for the little ones, or on a Sunday he would now and then walk with the elder ones to Hampstead Heath or to the Zoo, where, as ❋ Leonard Huxley (1896)

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