accommodation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /əˌkɑ.məˈdeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /əˌkɔm.əˈdæɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: accommodations
form: accomodation
Etymology: From French accommodation, from Latin accommodātiō (“adjustment, accommodation, compliance”), from accommodō (“adapt, put in order”). Superficially accommodate + -ion. The sense of "lodging" was first attested in 1600.
Senses: examples: text: The accommodations at that hotel were quite luxurious.
qualifier: usually a mass noun
glosses: Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
examples: text: 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
ref: 1677, Sir Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind: Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, →OCLC, page 49:
glosses: Adaptation or adjustment.
The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
examples: text: ...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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: Adaptation or adjustment.
A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
physiology
sciences
glosses: Adaptation or adjustment.
The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Adaptation or adjustment.
The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
glosses: Adaptation or adjustment.
Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
examples: ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 2005, Bryan Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, page 82:
glosses: Adaptation or adjustment.
Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1794, William Paley, A View of the Evidences of Christianity, reprinted in 1818 by James Robertson, page 283
glosses: Adaptation or adjustment.
The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
topics: business
commerce
glosses: Adaptation or adjustment.
A loan of money.
topics: business
commerce
glosses: Adaptation or adjustment.
An accommodation bill or note.
topics: law
glosses: Adaptation or adjustment.
An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Adaptation or adjustment.
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.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
examples: text: 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), […]
ref: 2017 February 13, Annette Becker, Markus Bieswanger, Introduction to English Linguistics, UTB, →ISBN, page 178:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
social-science
sociolinguistics
sociology
glosses: Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.
Derived terms: accommodation address
accommodational
accommodation bill
accommodation coach
accommodation house
accommodationism
accommodationist
accommodation ladder
accommodation line
accommodation on arrival
accommodation paper
accommodation train
communication accommodation theory
disaccommodation
dispersal accommodation
house of accommodation
nonaccommodation
overaccommodation
reaccommodation
underaccommodation