accommodate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To have enough space or room for a number of people or things.

   The hall can comfortably accommodate up to five hundred guests.

2. 2
   verb

   To provide somebody with a place to stay or sleep.

   The hotel accommodated the stranded travellers overnight.

3. 3
   verb

   To do what someone wants or needs in order to help them; to oblige.

   The staff did their best to accommodate every special request.

4. 4
   verb

   To change or adjust something so that it fits a new situation.

   We had to accommodate our plans to the sudden change in weather.

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-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin commodō Latin accommodō Latin accommodātusbor. English accommodate 1530s, borrowed from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō (see -ate (…

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