noun
lodgment
Lodgment (noun) means a place where someone or something stays or is kept.
noun
1
A place where someone or something stays or is kept.
"In the case of a wood-engraving the reverse takes place. It is not those parts removed by the burin that afford lodgment for the printer's ink, but the surface left standing and untouched by it."
— Edmund J. Sullivan (1922)
2
The state of being lodged somewhere.
"Nineteenth-century culture bears witness to a gradually intensifying anxiety about the structure of the self and the security of its lodgment in the world."
— Nick Mansfield (2000)
3
The act of putting something in place or depositing it.
"A suggestive analogy becomes apparent between the first febrile period of the dromedary or straggling types, and the phenomena of lodgment of the virus in the spleen and bone marrow of monkeys after intravenous inoculation."
— George Draper, Acute Poliomyelitis: Early Diagnosis and Serum Therapy (1917)
4
The taking of a position by attacking forces, along with the defences they build to hold it.
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Etymology
It comes from Middle French logement, from loger (“to lodge”) plus -ment.
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What is the meaning of lodgment?
"lodgment" (noun) means a place where someone or something stays or is kept.
What is another word for lodgment?
Other words for "lodgment" include lodging, lodgement.
What are the different meanings of lodgment?
"lodgment" has 3 main meanings: 1. A place where someone or something stays or is kept; 2. The state of being lodged somewhere; 3. The act of putting something in place or depositing it.
