porter's lodge

English

Alternative forms

• porter-lodge, porters' lodge

Noun

porter's lodge (plural porters' lodges)

1. A building for the porter(s) near the gate of a castle, college, etc., (historical) formerly used as a place of punishment for the staff.
   • 1819 August 30, Times, page 2:

     The keys... were on Saturday stolen from the porter's lodge.

2. (UK, Canada) An equivalent room near the gate of a college, chiefly used as a mailroom.
   • 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section I, page 39:

     [H]e walked across Hawthorn Tree Court on his way to the porter's lodge. […] At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole.

Synonyms

• (all): plodge, lodge
• (building): see guardhouse
• (room): see mailroom

Derived terms

• plodge

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 門房／门房 (zh) (ménfáng)

• Italian: guardiola, gabbiotto
• Latin: cellula

References

• “porter, n.¹.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2006.