accommodate
verbadjectiveattested in dialogue
- United States//əˈkɑməˌdeɪt//
- United States/[əˈkʰɑməˌdeɪt]/
- Canada//əˈkɒməˌdeɪt//
- Canada/[əˈkʰɒməˌdeɪt]/
- Australia//əˈkɔməˌdæɪt//
To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
verb
- 1
To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
to accommodate ourselves to circumstances
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.
- 2
To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
to accommodate differences
- 3
To provide housing for.
to accommodate an old friend for a week
- 4
To provide sufficient space for.
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.
- 5
To contain comfortably; to have space for.
This venue accommodates three hundred people.
- 6
To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
to accommodate a friend with a loan
- 7
To do a favor or service for; to oblige.
- 8
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
- 9
To give consideration to; to allow for.
- 10
rareTo adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
- 11
Of an eye, to change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.
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. Latin commodum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin commodō Latin accommodō Latin accommodātusbor. English accommodate First use appears c. the 1530s, borrowed from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + commodō (“to provide, lend; to make fit, accommodate”), from con- + modus (“measure, proportion, limit”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix) (see English mode).
adjective
- 1
obsoleteSuitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
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.
Forms
- comparative
- more accommodate
- superlative
- most accommodate
- past tense
- accommodated
- past participle
- accommodated
- present participle
- accommodating
- third person singular
- accommodates
accommodate · To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
accommodation · Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to…accommodations · accommodation, lodgingaccompanied · Having accompaniment; being part of a group of at least two.