Lodging vs Gest - What's the difference?
lodging | gest |
A place to live or lodge.
sleeping accommodation.
* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. XI, ''The Abbot’s Ways
(in the plural) Furnished rooms in a house rented as accommodation.
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.
(obsolete) A gesture or action.
* , II.ix:
* , II.36:
(archaic) A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
(archaic) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
(archaic) bearing; deportment
* Spenser
(obsolete) A stage in travelling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey; a rest.
(obsolete) A roll reciting the several stages arranged for a royal progress.
As nouns the difference between lodging and gest
is that lodging is a place to live or lodge while gest is (obsolete) a gesture or action or gest can be (obsolete) a stage in travelling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey; a rest.lodging
English
(wikipedia lodging)Noun
(en noun)- When I was a Cloister-monk, I was once sent to , and I had to beg a lodging there.
Anagrams
* godlinggest
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) geste.Noun
(en noun)- They did obeysaunce, as beseemed right, / And then againe returned to their restes: / The Porter eke to her did lout with humble gestes .
- more Kings and Princes have written his gestes' and actions, than any other historians, of what quality soever, have registred the ' gests , or collected the actions of any other King or Prince that ever was.
- (Chaucer)
- (Spenser)
- (Mede)
- through his heroic grace and honorable gest
Etymology 2
Compare gist a resting place.Noun
(en noun)- (Kersey)
- (Hanmer)
