noun. One that lodges, especially one who rents and lives in a furnished room.

noun. One who lodges; especially, one who lives in a hired room or rooms in the house of another.

noun. One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.

noun. A person who lodges in another's house (compare tenant).

noun. a tenant in someone's house

"However, he consoled himself with what was in truth a rare consolation for a budding lover, that he was under the same roof with Lizzy; her guest, in fact, to take a poetical view of the term lodger; and that he would certainly see her on the morrow."

lodger franchise  

renter  tenant  

boarder  walkup  

board-and-roomer  boarder  dosser  hirer  homesteader