accommodation

noun accommodations · accomodation

1. Australia, UK, countable, uncountable 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.

   Similar: housing

2. countable, physical, uncountable, with to The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment. 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
3. countable, physical, uncountable A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need. ...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.
4. countable, physical The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
5. countable, physical The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
6. countable, personal, uncountable Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
7. countable, personal, uncountable Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise. 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 f
8. countable, personal The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. 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.
9. countable, personal A loan of money.
10. countable, personal An accommodation bill or note.
11. countable, personal An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
12. countable, personal, uncountable 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.
13. countable The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
14. countable, uncountable Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse. 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 lan