loge

See also logé, and Loge

English

Wikipedia

Loges in an opera house.

Etymology

From French loge (“arbor, covered walk-way”) from Frankish *laubja (“shelter”). Akin to Old High German. louba "porch, gallery" (German Laube "bower, arbor"), Old High German. loub "leaf, foliage", Old English lēaf "leaf, foliage". More at lobby, loggia, leaf.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ləʊʒ/
• Rhymes: -əʊʒ

Noun

loge (plural loges)

1. A booth or stall.
2. The lodge of a concierge.
   • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 70:

     About three in the morning, Nora knocked at the little glass door of the concierge's loge, asking if the doctor was in.

3. An upscale seating region in a modern concert hall or sports venue, often in the back lower tier, or on a separate tier above the mezzanine.
   • 2006, George Gmelch and J.J. Weiner, In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People^[1], ISBN 0803271271, page 151:

     In major league stadiums the press box is usually located between the first and second decks in the loge level.

4. An exclusive box or seating region in older theaters and opera houses, having wider, softer, and more widely spaced seats than in the gallery.
   • 2002, Downing A. Thomas, Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785^[2], ISBN 0521801885, page 274:

     Patte notes that the spectators who were seated there were too close to the action to frame it as real, and that the loges in the avant-scène hampered the effect of the voice.

Translations

booth — see booth

stall — see stall

upscale seating region in theatres or similar

• Czech: lože (cs) f
• French: loge (fr) f

• German: Loge (de) f
• Russian: ложа (ru) (lóža) f 

Anagrams

• LEGO, Lego, lego, ogle

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Dutch

Verb

loge

1. singular past subjunctive of liegen

Verb

loge

1. singular present subjunctive of logen

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French

Etymology

Old French , from Old Frankish *laubja. The Masonic sense developed under influence from English lodge.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lɔʒ/

Noun

loge f (plural loges)

1. (freemasonry) lodge
2. (theater) box
3. (obsolete) hut

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Swedish

Etymology 1

From French.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /loːɧ/

Noun

loge

1. A backstage dressing room for actors at a theatre.
2. A private seating chamber at a theatre.
3. A section or local chapter of a freemason order.

Declension

Declension of loge

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	loge	logen	loger	logerna
genitive	loges	logens	logers	logernas

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈluːˌgɛ/

Noun

loge

1. A barn with a strong and flat wooden floor, suitable for threshing or dancing.

Declension

Declension of loge

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	loge	logen	logar	logarna
genitive	loges	logens	logars	logarnas

Etymology 3

See le (“smile”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈluːˌgɛ/

Verb

loge

1. subjunctive of le.

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Volapük

Noun

loge

1. dative singular form of log