What does "accommodation" mean?
Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
Accommodation
/əˌkɑ.məˈdeɪ.ʃən/ noun
noun ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
- Grammar: accommodation is listed as noun.
- Nearest alternatives: adjustment, abatement of differences, abode, about face.
- Useful contrasts: assimilating, assimilation, battle.
- Usage evidence: The hotel has good accommodation.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc. British, countable, uncountable
"The accommodations at that hotel were quite luxurious."
- 2 (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye wordnet
- 3 Adaptation or adjustment.; The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment. countable, physical, uncountable, with-to
"It is true, the organization of the humane and animal Body, with accommodation to their several functions and offices, is certainly fitted with the most curious and exact Mechanism imaginable"
- 4 the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need wordnet
- 5 Adaptation or adjustment.; A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need. countable, physical, uncountable
"...and Lady Anne, for the present, felt as if Fanchette and her coach full of accommodations, heavy as they might once be supposed to be, were suddenly swallowed up in that awful sea, to which so many refractory spirits have been exorcised and consigned."
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- 6 living quarters provided for public convenience wordnet
- 7 Adaptation or adjustment.; The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part. countable, physical
- 8 in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality wordnet
- 9 Adaptation or adjustment.; The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object. countable, physical
- 10 a settlement of differences wordnet
- 11 Adaptation or adjustment.; Willingness to accommodate; obligingness. countable, personal, uncountable
- 12 making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances wordnet
- 13 Adaptation or adjustment.; Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise. countable, personal, uncountable
"Some of the recent literature on the Germanic settlements reads like an account of a tea party at the Roman vicarage. A shy newcomer to the village, who is a useful prospect for the cricket team, is invited in. There is a brief moment of awkwardness, while the host finds an empty chair and pours a fresh cup of tea; but the conversation, and village life, soon flow on. The accommodation that was reached between invaders and invaded in the fifth- and sixth-century West was very much more difficult, and more interesting, than this."
- 14 Adaptation or adjustment.; The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. countable, personal
"It is probable to my apprehension, that many of those quotations were intended by the writers of the New Testament as nothing more than accommodations."
- 15 Adaptation or adjustment.; A loan of money. countable, personal
- 16 Adaptation or adjustment.; An accommodation bill or note. countable, personal
- 17 Adaptation or adjustment.; An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted. countable, personal
- 18 Adaptation or adjustment.; An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness. countable, personal, uncountable
- 19 The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation. countable
- 20 Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse. countable, uncountable
"Pilots […] use the word fuselage whereas laypeople would more likely call the same "thing" the body of an aircraft. […] We have said above that speakers often signal that they belong to a certain group by making their language more similar to that of the other group members […] we thus adapt our language, dialect, accent, style and/or register to that of our addressee or addressees. This process is called speech accommodation. Among the reasons for accommodation may be our desire to identify more closely with the addressee(s), […]"
Synonyms
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"The hotel has good accommodation."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "accommodation"?
Common synonyms include: adjustment, abatement of differences, abode, about face, about-face, acclimation.
How do you use "accommodation" in a sentence?
The hotel has good accommodation.
How do you pronounce "accommodation"?
Pronounced /əˌkɑ.məˈdeɪ.ʃən/.
Etymology
From French accommodation, from Latin accommodātiō (“adjustment, accommodation, compliance”), from accommodō (“adapt, put in order”). Superficially accommodate + -ion. The sense of "lodging" was first attested in 1600.