Accommodate Definition

Contents

• 1 English
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Pronunciation
  • 1.3 Verb
    • 1.3.1 Synonyms
    • 1.3.2 Antonyms
    • 1.3.3 Translations
  • 1.4 Adjective
  • 1.5 External links
• 2 Latin
  • 2.1 Adverb
    • 2.1.1 Related terms
  • 2.2 References

English

Etymology

From Latin accomodātus, perfect passive participle of accomodō; ad + commodō (“make fit, help”); com + modus (“measure, proportion”). See mode.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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

1. (transitive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

   They accommodate their counsels to his inclination. -Joseph Addison

2. (transitive) To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
3. (transitive) To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
4. (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.
5. (intransitive) (rare) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. - Boyle

Synonyms

• To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.

Antonyms

• (obsolete) discommodate

Adjective

accommodate

1. (archaic) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. - John Tillotson

External links

• accommodate at OneLook Dictionary Search
• accommodate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Part or all of this page has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Latin

Adverb

accommodātē (comparative accommodātius, superlative accommodātissimē)

1. suitably

Related terms

• accommodātiō
• accommodātus
• accommodō
• accommodus

References

• accommodate in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879

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