Word: accommodation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin com- Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *medos Latin modus Latin commodusnom. Latin commodum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin commodō Latin accommodō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin accommodātiōnembor. French accommodationbor. English accommodation 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. Pronunciation: /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/, /əˌkɑ.məˈdeɪ.ʃən/, /əˌkɔm.əˈdæɪ.ʃən/ 1. Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc. Labels: Australia, UK, countable, uncountable Example: I have booked the accommodation for my trip to Paris. Example: So, it's settled. I'm going to Penzance. Hooray! I've even booked my accommodation. 2. Adaptation or adjustment. Labels: countable, physical, uncountable, with-to Example: 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. Adaptation or adjustment. Labels: countable, physical, uncountable Example: ...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. Example: 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. 4. Adaptation or adjustment. Labels: countable, physical 5. Adaptation or adjustment. Labels: countable, physical 6. Adaptation or adjustment. Labels: countable, personal, uncountable 7. Adaptation or adjustment. Labels: countable, personal, uncountable Example: 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. 8. Adaptation or adjustment. Labels: countable, personal Example: 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. Adaptation or adjustment. Labels: countable, personal 10. Adaptation or adjustment. Labels: countable, personal 11. Adaptation or adjustment. Labels: countable, personal 12. Adaptation or adjustment. Labels: countable, personal, uncountable 13. The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation. Labels: countable 14. Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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), […]