League vs Lodge - What's the difference?
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A group or association of cooperating members.
* Denham
An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
(informal) Rugby league.
To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
(measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
* M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47
A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
Porter's]] or [[caretaker, caretaker's rooms at or near the main entrance to a building or an estate.
A local chapter of some fraternities]], such as [[freemason, freemasons.
(US) A local chapter of a trade union.
A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
A den or cave.
The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
(mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
A collection of objects lodged together.
* De Foe
A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
To stay in any place or shelter.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
League is a related term of lodge.
As nouns the difference between league and lodge
is that league is a group or association of cooperating members or league can be (measurement) the distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three english miles (about five kilometers) while lodge is a building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.As verbs the difference between league and lodge
is that league is to form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support while lodge is to be firmly fixed in a specified position.league
English
(wikipedia league)Etymology 1
(etyl) ligg, from (etyl) ligue, from (etyl) lega, from the verb legare, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- the League of Nations
- And let there be / 'Twixt us and them no league , nor amity.
- My favorite sports organizations are the National Football League''' and the American '''League in baseball.
- Are you going to watch the league tonight?
Derived terms
* bush league * in a league of one's own * in league (with) * major league * minor league * non-league * out of one's league * seven-league bootsVerb
(leagu)- (South)
Etymology 2
From (m), possibly from (etyl).Noun
(en noun)- Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered.''
References
* Online Etymology,league* Middle English Dictionary, lege
lodge
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Raymond)
- the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands
- The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges , that is, of about a thousand individuals.
Verb
(lodg)- I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.
- The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree.
- The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street.
- Stay and lodge by me this night.
- Something holy lodges in that breast.
- The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge .