Alternative forms

• accomodation (misspelling)

Etymology

From FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from French#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:English terms derived from French#ACCOMMODATION accommodation, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#ACCOMMODATION accommodātiō (“adjustment, accommodation, compliance”), from accommodō (“adapt, put in order”). Superficially accommodate +‎ -ionCategory:English terms suffixed with -ion#ACCOMMODATION. The sense of "lodging" was first attested in 1600.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/Category:English 5-syllable words#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ACCOMMODATION

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /əˌkɑ.məˈdeɪ.ʃən/Category:English 5-syllable words#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ACCOMMODATION

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /əˌkɔm.əˈdæɪ.ʃən/Category:English 5-syllable words#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ACCOMMODATION
• Rhymes: -eɪʃənCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪʃən#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪʃən/5 syllables#ACCOMMODATION

Noun

accommodation (countable and uncountable, plural accommodations)Category:English lemmas#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:English nouns#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:English uncountable nouns#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:English countable nouns#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:English countable nouns#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:Pages with entries#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:Pages with 3 entries#ACCOMMODATION

2. (BritishCategory:British English#ACCOMMODATION, AustraliaCategory:Australian English#ACCOMMODATION, a mass noun) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc.

   I have booked the accommodation for my trip to Paris.

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   • 2009 July 18, Alice-Azania Jarvis, “Alice-Azania Jarvis: 'A taste for seafood could break my holiday budget'”, in The Independent‎:

     So, it's settled. I'm going to Penzance. Hooray! I've even booked my accommodation.

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   • 2022 December 12, Bobbie Edes, “My Sad and Glad Tales of PRONI”, in Genealogical Society of Queensland‎:

     Having returned to my accommodation and explained my hurriedly decided change of plans, I then drove back to Dublin for even more research.

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   • 2015 October 7, Richard Harbourne, “St. Lucia”, in Travel Counsellors‎:

     If you’re looking for a Caribbean adventure with luxurious accommodation then this is the place for you.

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3. (physical) Adaptation or adjustment.
   1. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#ACCOMMODATION, uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#ACCOMMODATION, followed by to) The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
      • 1677, Sir Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind: Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, →OCLC, page 49:

        It is true, the organization of the humane and animal Body, with accommodation to their several functions and offices, is certainly fitted with the most curious and exact Mechanism imaginable

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   2. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#ACCOMMODATION, uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#ACCOMMODATION) A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
      • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 226:

        ...and Lady Anne, for the present, felt as if Fanchette and her coach full of accommodations, heavy as they might once be supposed to be, were suddenly swallowed up in that awful sea, to which so many refractory spirits have been exorcised and consigned.

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      • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

        Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.

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   3. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#ACCOMMODATION, physiologyCategory:en:Physiology#ACCOMMODATION, biologyCategory:en:Biology#ACCOMMODATION) The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
   4. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#ACCOMMODATION, medicineCategory:en:Medicine#ACCOMMODATION) The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
4. (personal) Adaptation or adjustment.
   1. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#ACCOMMODATION, uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#ACCOMMODATION) Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
   2. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#ACCOMMODATION, uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#ACCOMMODATION) Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
      • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
      • 2005, Bryan Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, page 82:

        Some of the recent literature on the Germanic settlements reads like an account of a tea party at the Roman vicarage. A shy newcomer to the village, who is a useful prospect for the cricket team, is invited in. There is a brief moment of awkwardness, while the host finds an empty chair and pours a fresh cup of tea; but the conversation, and village life, soon flow on. The accommodation that was reached between invaders and invaded in the fifth- and sixth-century West was very much more difficult, and more interesting, than this.

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   3. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#ACCOMMODATION) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
      • 1794, William Paley, A View of the Evidences of Christianity, reprinted in 1818 by James Robertson, page 283:

        It is probable to my apprehension, that many of those quotations were intended by the writers of the New Testament as nothing more than accommodations.

   4. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#ACCOMMODATION, commerceCategory:en:Commerce#ACCOMMODATION) A loan of money.
   5. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#ACCOMMODATION, commerceCategory:en:Commerce#ACCOMMODATION) An accommodation bill or note.
   6. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#ACCOMMODATION, lawCategory:en:Law#ACCOMMODATION) An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
   7. (theologyCategory:en:Theology#ACCOMMODATION) An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness.
5. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#ACCOMMODATION, geologyCategory:en:Geology#ACCOMMODATION) The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
6. (linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#ACCOMMODATION, sociolinguisticsCategory:en:Sociolinguistics#ACCOMMODATION) Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.
   • 2017 February 13, Annette Becker, Markus Bieswanger, Introduction to English Linguistics, UTB, →ISBN, page 178:

     Pilots […] use the word fuselage whereas laypeople would more likely call the same "thing" the body of an aircraft. […] We have said above that speakers often signal that they belong to a certain group by making their language more similar to that of the other group members […] we thus adapt our language, dialect, accent, style and/or register to that of our addressee or addressees. This process is called speech accommodation. Among the reasons for accommodation may be our desire to identify more closely with the addressee(s), […]

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Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:French terms borrowed from Latin#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:French terms derived from Latin#ACCOMMODATION accommodātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kɔ.mɔ.da.sjɔ̃/Category:French 5-syllable words#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#ACCOMMODATION

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃Category:Rhymes:French/ɔ̃#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:Rhymes:French/ɔ̃/5 syllables#ACCOMMODATION
• Homophone: accommodationsCategory:French terms with homophones#ACCOMMODATION

Noun

accommodation f (plural accommodations)Category:French lemmas#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:French nouns#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:French countable nouns#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:French feminine nouns#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:Pages with entries#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:Pages with 3 entries#ACCOMMODATION

1. accommodation

   Synonyms: hébergement m, logement m

Further reading

• “accommodation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Noun

accommodation (plural accommodations)Category:Scots lemmas#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:Scots nouns#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:Scots entries with incorrect language header#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:Pages with entries#ACCOMMODATIONCategory:Pages with 3 entries#ACCOMMODATION

1. accommodation

References

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