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

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