Lodger

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lodger \Lodg"er\, n.
     One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room
     in another's house.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  lodger
       n : a tenant in someone's house [syn: {boarder}, {roomer}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "lodger":
     board-and-roomer, boarder, hirer, homesteader, incumbent,
     leaseholder, lessee, occupant, occupier, paying guest, renter,
     resident, roomer, squatter, sublessee, subtenant, tenant,
     tenant at sufferance, tenant for life, transient, transient guest,
     underlessee
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  LODGER. One who has a right to inhabit another man's house. He has not the 
  same right as a tenant; and is not entitled to the same notice to quit. 
  Woodf. L. &_T. 177. See 7 Mann. & Gr. 87; S. C. 49 E. C. L. R. 85, 151, and 
  article Inmate. 
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  LODGER, n.  A less popular name for the Second Person of that
  delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.