accommodation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   living quarters provided for public convenience

   overnight accommodations are available

2. 2
   noun

   a settlement of differences

   they reached an accommodation with Japan

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   Adaptation or 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

5. 5
   noun

   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 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), […]

6. 6
   noun

   (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye

7. 7
   noun

   the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need

8. 8
   noun

   in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality

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-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin commodō Latin accommodō Proto-Indo-European *-tisder. Proto-Italic *-tjō Latin -tiō Latin accommodātiōnembor. French accommodationbor. English accommodation Fr…