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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To do a favor or service for; oblige. See Synonyms at oblige.
  2. v. To provide for; supply with.
  3. v. To hold comfortably without crowding. See Synonyms at contain.
  4. v. To make suitable; adapt. See Synonyms at adapt.
  5. v. To allow for; consider: an economic proposal that accommodates the interests of senior citizens.
  6. v. To settle; reconcile.
  7. v. To adapt oneself; become adjusted: It is never easy to accommodate to social change.
  8. v. Physiology To become adjusted, as the eye to focusing on objects at a distance.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To make suitable, correspondent, or consistent; fit; adapt: as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances; to accommodate the choice of subjects to the occasion; to accommodate a Latin word, in form or use, to English analogies.
  2. To show fitness or agreement in; reconcile, as things which are at variance or which seem inconsistent; bring into harmony or concord: as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
  3. To adjust; settle: as, to accommodate differences.
  4. To supply or furnish; provide with certain conveniences; give accommodation to: as, my house can accommodate a large number of guests: followed by with when what is supplied is expressly mentioned: as, to accommodate a man with apartments; to accommodate a friend with money.
  5. To suit; serve; convenience; oblige; do a kindness or favor to: as, he is always delighted to accommodate a friend.
  6. Synonyms To suit, adapt, fit, conform, adjust, reconcile.
  7. To furnish, supply, provide for.
  8. To serve, oblige, assist, aid.
  9. To be conformable; specifically, in physiology, to be in or come to adjustment. See accommodation, 4 .
  10. Suitable; fit; adapted; accommodated.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
  2. v. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
  3. v. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
  4. v. 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.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
  5. v. (rare) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. - Boyle
  6. adj. Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. - John Tillotson
  7. v. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
  8. v. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
  9. v. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
  10. v. 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.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
  11. v. (rare) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. - Boyle
  12. adj. Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. - John Tillotson

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform.
  2. v. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle
  3. v. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige.
  4. v. 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..
  5. v. To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.
  6. adj. Suitable; fit; adapted.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. provide with something desired or needed
  2. v. have room for; hold without crowding
  3. v. be agreeable or acceptable to
  4. v. provide housing for
  5. v. make (one thing) compatible with (another)
  6. v. make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
  7. v. provide a service or favor for someone

Etymologies

  1. Latin accomodāre, accomodāt-, to fit : ad-, ad- + commodus, suitable; see commodious.

Examples

  • “When a party of the Shays rebels came to the house of General Pomeroy, in Northampton, and asked if he could accommodate them, -- the old soldier, seeing the green sprigs in their hats, the badges of their treason, shouted to his son, "Fetch me my hanger, and I'll _accommodate_ the scoundrels!”

    The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays

  • “The very province we were jointly trying to accommodate is isolated yet again.”

    Hanging Together: Canada After Patriation

  • “Larsen said tents were being readied for 400,000 quake victims at mini-villages outside the capital that will initially hold 20,000 people, and in the long term accommodate around one million.”

    Raw Story

  • “Health Minister Alex Larsen said that tents were being readied for 400,000 people at mini-villages that will initially hold 20,000, and in the long term accommodate about one million.”

    IrishExaminer.com

  • “Health Minister Alex Larsen said tents were being readied for 400,000 quake victims at mini-villages outside the capital that will initially hold 20,000 people, and in the long term accommodate around one million.”

    Channel NewsAsia Front Page News

  • “Others have used private transport. said that tents were being readied for 400,000 people at mini-villages that will initially hold 20,000, and in the long term accommodate around one million.”

    News on Earthquakes

  • “Health Minister Alex Larsen said that tents were being readied for 400,000 people at mini-villages that will initially hold 20,000, and in the long term accommodate around one million.”

    Raw Story

  • “You’ll find the word accommodate spelled twice with one ‘m’, which sets a tone consistent with the Brand, really.”

    Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Oh Yes It’s Ladies’ Night…

  • “By accommodate, I mean stay connected to him but accept that Mom will always come first.”

    Simon & Schuster: When He's Married to Mom

  • “Obliging word accommodate: there's accommodation notes now, where one accommodates another with a loan, and if he don't pay it pretty quickly, accommodates him with a chain to his foot.”

    The Confidence-Man

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