accommodate

English Online Dictionary. What means accommodate‎? What does accommodate mean?

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]

Verb

accommodate (third-person singular simple present accommodates, present participle accommodating, simple past and past participle accommodated)

1. (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.

   Synonyms: adapt, conform, adjust, arrange, suit
2. (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.

   Synonym: reconcile

3. (transitive) To provide housing for.

4. To provide sufficient space for
5. (transitive) To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.

6. (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige.

   Synonym: oblige

7. (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.

8. (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
9. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.

10. (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
11. (intransitive, of an eye) To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.

Antonyms

• discommodate (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

accommodate (comparative more accommodate, superlative most accommodate)

1. (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

Further reading

• “accommodate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “accommodate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Adverb

accommodātē (comparative accommodātius, superlative accommodātissimē)

1. 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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əˈkɔmədet]

Verb

accommodate (third-person singular simple present accommodates, present participle accommodatin, simple past accomodatit, past participle accommodat)

1. accommodate

References

• Eagle, Andy, de. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.