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
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.
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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
Here, the ski-in, ski-out Hoshino Resorts Bandaisan Onsen Hotel offers lodgings at affordable prices and has several room configurations for groups or families.
—Adam H. Graham, AFAR Media, 14 Oct. 2025
His lodgings included a mix of Airbnbs, hostels, hotels and family friends' homes.
—Vanessa Romo, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
Later that night, after the cast had returned to their lodgings, Candy called Picardo.
—Simon Bland, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2025
Staying in affordable cabin lodgings has its own romantic charm in many cases.
—Wendy Altschuler, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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
Here, the ski-in, ski-out Hoshino Resorts Bandaisan Onsen Hotel offers lodgings at affordable prices and has several room configurations for groups or families.
—Adam H. Graham, AFAR Media, 14 Oct. 2025
His lodgings included a mix of Airbnbs, hostels, hotels and family friends' homes.
—Vanessa Romo, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
Later that night, after the cast had returned to their lodgings, Candy called Picardo.
—Simon Bland, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2025
Staying in affordable cabin lodgings has its own romantic charm in many cases.
—Wendy Altschuler, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 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 20 Nov. 2025.
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