different between lodging vs lodgement

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

Etymology

From Middle French logement

Noun

lodgement (countable and uncountable, plural lodgements)

1. (Britain) Alternative spelling of lodgment
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan in Selected Poems of Lord Byron, Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 2006, Canto I, stanza 215, p. 111,

     And in thy stead I've got a deal of judgement / Though heaven knows how it ever found a lodgement.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 11, [1]

     Is Envy then such a monster? […] since its lodgement is in the heart not the brain, no degree of intellect supplies a guarantee against it.

   • 1934, T. S. Eliot, Chorus VII from 'The Rock' in Collected Poems, 1909-1962, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963, p. 162,

     and man without GOD is a seed upon the wind: driven this way and that, and finding no place of lodgement and germination.