lodge

A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.

Short for porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.

A local chapter of some fraternities, such as 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.

An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.

(historical) 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.