different between lodging vs guesthouse

English

Etymology

lodge +? -ing

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?d???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l?d???/
• Rhymes: -?d???

Noun

lodging (plural lodgings)

1. A place to live or lodge.
2. Sleeping accommodation.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XI, The Abbot’s Ways

     When I was a Cloister-monk, I was once sent to Durham on business of our Church; and coming home again, the dark night caught me at Risby, and I had to beg a lodging there.

3. (in the plural) Furnished rooms in a house rented as accommodation.
5. (agriculture) The condition of a plant, especially a cereal, that has been flattened in the field or damaged so that it cannot stand upright, as by weather conditions or because the stem is not strong enough to support the plant.

Related terms

• lodge

Translations

Verb

lodging

1. present participle of lodge

Further reading

• lodging on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• lodging (agriculture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Golding, dogling, godling, golding

English

Alternative forms

• guest house
• guest-house (rare)

Etymology

From Middle English gest hous, gistenehus, gystehuse, gesthus, partly from Old English gæsth?s, ?esth?s (“guesthouse, hostel; guest-chamber”); and partly from Old Norse gesthús (“guesthouse; guest-chamber”), corresponding to guest +? house.

Noun

guesthouse (plural guesthouses)

1. A small house near a main house, for lodging visitors.
2. A private house offering accommodation to paying guests; a boarding house; a bed and breakfast.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:lodging place

Hypernyms

• house

Hyponyms

• (client accommodations): paying guest house, PG house

Translations

Descendants

• Japanese: ?????? (?gesutohausu)
• Korean: ?????? (geseuteuhauseu)

Anagrams

• house guest, houseguest