Lodging

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Abiding place; harbor; cover.

II. Lodging ·noun The act of one who, or that which, lodges.

III. Lodging ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Lodge.

IV. Lodging ·noun A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; ·esp., a sleeping apartment;

— often in the plural with a singular meaning.