Logement

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A place where someone resides, often referring to a type of housing or accommodation
2. An arrangement or living quarters typically provided for people, particularly in a rental context
3. Referring to a type of dwelling that serves as a home or living space, encompassing various forms of shelter

Etymology: In English, the word's main history is military. In French, "loger" meant to lodge someone, especially to quarter soldiers in billets. A "logement" was the place where troops were housed, and in fortification language it came to mean a position a force seized and held inside enemy works, a foothold won in the middle of a siege. The root is a humble building word. Old French "loge" meant a small shelter or hut, borrowed from a Frankish word, "laubja", meaning a leafy covering or arbour. The same Germanic root gave English "lodge" and, by a different route, "lobby". A term for a home in French therefore began as a simple shelter of branches. In modern French, "logement" is the ordinary word for a dwelling or housing unit, and the sense of a dwelling is the one that English dictionaries record for it.

Synonyms: accommodation, housing, lodging, residence, dwelling

Antonyms: homelessness, displacement