accommodate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
1530s, from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō; ad + commodō (“make fit, help”); com- + modus (“measure, proportion”) (English mode).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /əˈkɒməˌdeɪt/, [əˈkʰɒməˌdeɪt]
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈkɑməˌdeɪt/, [əˈkʰɑməˌdeɪt]
Audio (US) (file)
Verb[edit]
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.
- 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, 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.
- (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[edit]
- discommodate (obsolete)
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to render fit or suitable
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to cause to come into agreement
to provide housing for
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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
to give consideration to
to contain comfortably; have space for
rare: to adapt oneself
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Adjective[edit]
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.
Further reading[edit]
- “accommodate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “accommodate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin[edit]
Adverb[edit]
accommodātē (comparative accommodātius, superlative accommodātissimē)
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be a persuasive speaker: accommodate ad persuadendum dicere
- to be a persuasive speaker: accommodate ad persuadendum dicere
Scots[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
accommodate (third-person singular simple present accommodates, present participle accommodatin, simple past accomodatit, past participle accommodat)
References[edit]
- Eagle, Andy, de. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
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