lodging house

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Recent Examples of lodging house Research trips took them to local lodging houses, private family homes, and vintage Deco hotels including Bombay’s Bentley’s Hotel and Sea Green Hotel on Marine Drive. Nicole Trilivas, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025 Reserve a simple lodging house or a two-bedroom apartment. Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2024 While unwilling to engage with gangs of vacationing children, Anchorage police did arrest and jail one man for repeatedly leaving his lodging house. David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2020 The response was sometimes harsh -- any lodging house where an infection appeared was burnt to the ground. Paul French, CNN, 18 Apr. 2020 Meanwhile, after Crossing Over left the Mount Vernon Street house and moved into the 29 Nutting St. triple-decker, a city inspector declared that Flagg was using the property as a lodging house, not allowed in his residential zone. BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2019 Everything else loomed large — the condition of the tenements, the perils of the ghetto, the moral dangers of the kitchenette, the risks presented by too many bodies forced into the cramped rooms of the lodging house. Longreads, 20 July 2019 His father, Feodor, looked after the family farm and his mother, Berta, ran a lodging house on the property during the summer. Niklas Magnusson, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lodging house
Noun
  • The four-story, 250-room building has operated in recent decades as a downmarket rooming house.
    JC Reindl, Freep.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The hotel eventually became a rooming house, with a tavern.
    Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Back in a hotel room on Fifth Avenue, Goldberg-Polin removes her jacket and sits down on a couch to speak with a reporter.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Governments could boost revenues through museum attendance as well as through money spent by visitors, from hotel accommodation to restaurants and souvenir shops.
    Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Lone Goat This English pub, which draws inspiration from public houses and taverns of London, is on the ground floor of the historic Metropolitan Building in downtown Detroit.
    Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Dave Cunningham, who opened the Comet, a Gen-X-era public house that helped spark a renaissance in Cincinnati's Northside neighborhood, died suddenly at his home on Tuesday.
    Keith Pandolfi, Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 Sep. 2025

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“Lodging house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lodging%20house. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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