accommodate
English
Etymology
1530s, from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō; ad + commodō (“make fit, help”); com- + modus (“measure, proportion”) (English mode).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /əˈkɒməˌdeɪt/, [əˈkʰɒməˌdeɪt]
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈkɑməˌdeɪt/, [əˈkʰɑməˌdeɪt]
Audio (US) (file)
Verb
accommodate (third-person singular simple present accommodates, present participle accommodating, simple past and past participle accommodated)
- (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
- Synonyms: adapt, conform, adjust, arrange, suit
- to accommodate ourselves to circumstances
- 1712 June 29 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison; Richard Steele [et al.], “WEDNESDAY, June 18, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 475; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697, page 15:
- IT is an old Obſervation, which has been made of Politicians who would rather ingratiate themſelves with their Sovereign, than promote his real Service, that they accommodate their Counſels to his Inclinations, and adviſe him to ſuch Actions only as his Heart is naturally ſet upon.
- (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
- Synonym: reconcile
- to accommodate differences
- (transitive) To provide housing for.
- to accommodate an old friend for a week
- To provide sufficient space for
- 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, pages 67-68:
- My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned.
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- (transitive) To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
- to accommodate a friend with a loan
- (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige.
- Synonym: oblige
- (transitive) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.
- to accommodate prophecy to events
- (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
- (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.
- This venue accommodates three hundred people.
- (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
- (intransitive, of an eye) To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.
Antonyms
- discommodate (obsolete)
Derived terms
- overaccommodate
- underaccommodate
Translations
to render fit or suitable
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to cause to come into agreement
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to provide housing for
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to provide space for something
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to provide with something desired
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to do a favor or service for
to show the correspondence of; adapt to fit
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to give consideration to
to contain comfortably; have space for
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rare: to adapt oneself
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Adjective
accommodate (comparative more accommodate, superlative most accommodate)
- (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
- a. 1671, John Tillotson, Sermons Preach’d Upon Several Occaſions, London: A.M., page 181:
- God did not primarily intend to appoint this way of Worſhip, and to impoſe it upon them as that which was moſt proper and agreeable to him ; but that he condeſcended to it, as moſt accommodate to their preſent ſtate and inclination.
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Further reading
- accommodate at OneLook Dictionary Search
- accommodate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for accommodate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Latin
Adverb
accommodātē (comparative accommodātius, superlative accommodātissimē)
- suitably
Related terms
- accommodātiō
- accommodātus
- accommodō
- accommodus
References
- “accommodate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “accommodate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- accommodate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be a persuasive speaker: accommodate ad persuadendum dicere
- to be a persuasive speaker: accommodate ad persuadendum dicere
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [əˈkɔmədet]
Verb
accommodate (third-person singular simple present accommodates, present participle accommodatin, simple past accomodatit, past participle accommodat)
- accommodate
References
- Eagle, Andy, de. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.