accommodation

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Scrabble points
22
Words With Friends
27
Letters
13
Pronunciation
/əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/ (UK)
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/əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/ (UK) · /əˌkɑ.məˈdeɪ.ʃən/ (US) · /əˌkɔm.əˈdæɪ.ʃən/

Definition of accommodation

14 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (Australia, British, countable, uncountable)Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc.
    “I have booked the accommodation for my trip to Paris.”
    “So, it's settled. I'm going to Penzance. Hooray! I've even booked my accommodation.”
    “Having returned to my accommodation and explained my hurriedly decided change of plans, I then drove back to Dublin for even more research.”
    “If you’re looking for a Caribbean adventure with luxurious accommodation then this is the place for you.”
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noun

  1. (Australia, British, countable, uncountable)Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc.
    “I have booked the accommodation for my trip to Paris.”
    “So, it's settled. I'm going to Penzance. Hooray! I've even booked my accommodation.”
    “Having returned to my accommodation and explained my hurriedly decided change of plans, I then drove back to Dublin for even more research.”
    “If you’re looking for a Caribbean adventure with luxurious accommodation then this is the place for you.”
  2. (countable, physical, uncountable, with-to)Adaptation or adjustment.
    “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”
  3. (countable, physical, uncountable)Adaptation or adjustment.
    “...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.”
    “Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.”
  4. (countable, physical)Adaptation or adjustment.
  5. (countable, physical)Adaptation or adjustment.
  6. (countable, personal, uncountable)Adaptation or adjustment.
  7. (countable, personal, uncountable)Adaptation or adjustment.
  8. (countable, personal)Adaptation or adjustment.
    “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.”
  9. (countable, personal)Adaptation or adjustment.
  10. (countable, personal)Adaptation or adjustment.
  11. (countable, personal)Adaptation or adjustment.
  12. (countable, personal, uncountable)Adaptation or adjustment.
  13. (countable)The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
  14. (countable, uncountable)Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin com- Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *medos Latin modus Latin commodusnom.…

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin com- Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *medos Latin modus Latin commodusnom. Latin commodum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin commodō Latin accommodō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin accommodātiōnembor. French accommodationbor. English accommodation 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.

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