See Also: lodger(dictionary)
lodger(dictionary)
LODGER(law)

lodger (iou)



lodger noun. ME.
[from LODGE verb + -ER1.]
A person who lives in a tent. Only in ME.
A person who remains or lives in a place, esp. temporarily; a person who passes the night in a place. arch. E16.
A person who lodges another, a host. M16-M17.
A person who lodges in another person's house, now esp. in part of a house that remains under the general control of the landlord. L16.
P. H. Johnson The top two floors of the house were kept furnished for lodgers.
A thing that lodges or becomes lodged. M19.
Comb.: lodger-franchise Hist. a right to vote conferred in 1867 on people in boroughs (and later in counties) occupying lodgings of an annual rental value of at least 10.
lodgerdom noun lodgers collectively; a district where many people live as lodgers: E20.