Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To have enough space for: synonym: contain.
- intransitive verb To provide lodging for.
- intransitive verb To take into consideration or make adjustments for; allow for.
- intransitive verb To do a favor or service for; oblige. synonym: oblige.
- intransitive verb To provide for; supply with something needed.
- intransitive verb To make suitable; adapt or adjust: synonym: adapt.
- intransitive verb To adapt oneself; become adjusted.
- intransitive verb Physiology To become adjusted, as the eye to focusing on objects at a distance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Suitable; fit; adapted; accommodated.
- 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. - 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. - To adjust; settle: as, to
accommodate differences. - 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. - To suit; serve; convenience; oblige; do a kindness or favor to: as, he is always delighted to accommodate a friend.
- Synonyms To suit, adapt, fit, conform, adjust, reconcile.
- To furnish, supply, provide for.
- To serve, oblige, assist, aid.
- To be conformable; specifically, in physiology, to be in or come to adjustment. See
accommodation , 4 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.
- transitive verb To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform.
- transitive verb To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle
- transitive verb To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige.
- transitive verb 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..
- adjective Archaic Suitable; fit; adapted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
- verb transitive To bring into agreement or harmony; to
reconcile ; tocompose ; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc. - verb transitive To provide housing for; to furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
- verb transitive To do a favor or service for; to oblige;
- verb 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.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
- verb transitive To give consideration to; to allow for.
- verb transitive To contain comfortably; to have space for.
- verb intransitive, rare To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
- adjective archaic Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. - John Tillotson
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb provide with something desired or needed
- verb have room for; hold without crowding
- verb be agreeable or acceptable to
- verb provide housing for
- verb make (one thing) compatible with (another)
- verb make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
- verb provide a service or favor for someone
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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!"
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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
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The very province we were jointly trying to accommodate is isolated yet again.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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