Lodge

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Lodge has several meanings, in most cases relating to a meeting or dwelling place. It is also a surname.

[edit] Common nouns

• The Lodge, the official residence of the Prime Minister of Australia
• Black lodge, traditionally a Masonic Lodge fallen into disrepute, but commonly perceived as a meeting place for neo-pagans who believe in black magic.^{[citation needed]}
• Hunting lodge, a place to stay when hunting
• Masonic Lodge, meeting place of Freemasons.
• Ski lodge, a place to stay when skiing
• Beaver's lodge, a nest
• Home of Native Americans
• Hotel, especially with a rustic or wilderness theme, or situated outside a city
• Level of organisation in a fraternal group (i.e. Freemasonry)
• Luxury resorts, which is intimate of size, with a common area, and often also features a mountain or natural location
• A building on a typical British estate in which a family live who are responsible for opening and closing the gates and thereby controlling entry.
• Name used by Chi Psi Fraternity brothers for their house.
• Lodge (company), an American cookware manufacturer

[edit] Persons

• Alexander Lodge (1881-1938), British engineer
• Carron Angus Cyril Oliver Lodge (c.1883-1910), British figure and landscape painter
• Sir Edmund Lodge (1756-1839), British Officer of Arms and author
• Eleanor Constance Lodge (1869-1936), historian and Principal of Westfield College, London
• Francis Graham Lodge (1908-), British black-and-white artist
• George Edward Lodge (1860-1954), British birds artist
• John C. Lodge (1862–1950), mayor of Detroit, Michigan
• Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924), an early 20th century U.S. Senator
• Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902–1985), grandson, mid-20th century U.S. Senator
• David Lodge (author) (b. 1935), British author
• Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851-1940), British physicist and writer involved in the development of the wireless telegraph
• Oliver W F Lodge (1878-1955), poet & author
• Sir Richard Lodge (1855-1936), historian
• Tom Lodge (born 1936), author and radio broadcaster