as in apartment
a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place
I've rented lodgings in the old boardinghouse downtown
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Recent Examples of lodgings
Staying inside the park is the most convenient option, but most on-site lodgings are pretty basic and only open during the warmer months.
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Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2025
And Hatter, who was relocated after city officials intervened, can settle into her new lodgings in her new neighborhood and figure out her next steps.
—Essence, 26 Nov. 2025
Visitors can stay in historic lodgings with period furnishings.
—Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Nov. 2025
Pampered Hollywood executives and A-list directors will also likely be seduced by Georgia’s famously warm hospitality culture — including historic villas converted into high-end lodgings.
—Dan Bilefsky, HollywoodReporter, 12 Nov. 2025
The name belonged to a London area with printing shops, booksellers and cheap lodgings where impoverished writers churned out pamphlets, satires, political tracts, sensational stories and hack journalism—whatever sold.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2025
While you’re holed up in your new lodgings, enjoy a blissful soak under the rainfall showerhead or take in the view from the glass wall in the bedroom that offers an unobscured view during leaf-peeping season and beyond.
—Lori Keong, Architectural Digest, 6 Nov. 2025
Midrange options and more modest lodgings abound.
—Susanne Fowler, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Booking travel is expensive these days, from the cost of trains or planes to paying for your luggage, lodgings and more.
—Ryley Amond, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2025
And Hatter, who was relocated after city officials intervened, can settle into her new lodgings in her new neighborhood and figure out her next steps.
—Essence, 26 Nov. 2025
Visitors can stay in historic lodgings with period furnishings.
—Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Nov. 2025
Pampered Hollywood executives and A-list directors will also likely be seduced by Georgia’s famously warm hospitality culture — including historic villas converted into high-end lodgings.
—Dan Bilefsky, HollywoodReporter, 12 Nov. 2025
The name belonged to a London area with printing shops, booksellers and cheap lodgings where impoverished writers churned out pamphlets, satires, political tracts, sensational stories and hack journalism—whatever sold.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2025
While you’re holed up in your new lodgings, enjoy a blissful soak under the rainfall showerhead or take in the view from the glass wall in the bedroom that offers an unobscured view during leaf-peeping season and beyond.
—Lori Keong, Architectural Digest, 6 Nov. 2025
Midrange options and more modest lodgings abound.
—Susanne Fowler, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Booking travel is expensive these days, from the cost of trains or planes to paying for your luggage, lodgings and more.
—Ryley Amond, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lodgings
apartment
Noun
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On Three’s Company, Ritter played Jack, the third roommate in Janet and Chrissy’s two-bedroom apartment.—
Julie Tremaine,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
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Diana was allowed to keep her apartments at Kensington Palace for life.—
StyleCaster Editors,
StyleCaster,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Lodgings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lodgings. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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