LODGE

'Lodge' has several meanings, in most cases relating to a meeting or dwelling place. It is also a surname.

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Common nouns

Persons

Other

Common nouns

★ Black lodge, traditionally a Masonic Lodge fallen into disrepute, but commonly perceived as a meeting place for neo-pagans who believe in black magic.

★ Hunting lodge, a place to stay when hunting

★ Masonic Lodge, meeting place of Freemasons.

★ Ski lodge, a place to stay when skiing

★ Beaver's lodge, a nest

★ Home of Native Americans

★ Hotel, especially with a rustic or wilderness theme, or situated outside a city

★ Level of organisation in a fraternal group (i.e. Freemasonry)

★ Luxury resorts, which is intimate of size, with a common area, and often also features a mountain or natural location

★ A building on a typical British estate in which a family live who are responsible for opening and closing the gates and thereby controlling entry.

Persons

★ Alexander Lodge (1881-1938), British engineer

★ Sir Edmund Lodge (1756-1839), British Officer of Arms and author

★ Eleanor Constance Lodge (1869-1936), historian and Principal of Westfield College, London

★ John C. Lodge (1862–1950), mayor of Detroit, Michigan

★ Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924), an early 20th century U.S. Senator

★ Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902–1985), grandson, mid-20th century U.S. Senator

★ David Lodge (author) (b. 1935), British author

★ Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851-1940), British physicist and writer involved the development of the wireless telegraph

★ Oliver W F Lodge (1878-1955), poet & author

★ Sir Richard Lodge (1855-1936), historian

★ Tom Lodge (born 1936), author and radio broadcaster

Other

★ Lodge (company), a company that makes cast iron cookware

★ Lodge Records, a record label

★ The Lodge, official residence in Canberra of the Prime Minister of Australia