accommodation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
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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-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.
Base: accommodate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: accommodations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: accomodation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
misspelling
Senses:
gloss: Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
countable
uncountable
examples: I have booked the accommodation for my trip to Paris.
So, it's settled. I'm going to Penzance. Hooray! I've even booked my accommodation.
Having returned to my accommodation and explained my hurriedly decided change of plans, I then drove back to Dublin for even more research.
If you’re looking for a Caribbean adventure with luxurious accommodation then this is the place for you.
gloss: Adaptation or adjustment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
with-to
examples: 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
gloss: Adaptation or adjustment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
examples: ...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.
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.
gloss: Adaptation or adjustment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
gloss: Adaptation or adjustment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
gloss: Adaptation or adjustment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
personal
uncountable
gloss: Adaptation or adjustment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
personal
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Adaptation or adjustment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
personal
examples: 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.
gloss: Adaptation or adjustment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
personal
gloss: Adaptation or adjustment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
personal
gloss: Adaptation or adjustment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
personal
gloss: Adaptation or adjustment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
personal
uncountable
gloss: The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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), […]
Derived words: accom
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
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