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accommodation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/ (UK)
• /əˌkɑ.məˈdeɪ.ʃən/ (Canada, US)
• /əˌkɔm.əˈdæɪ.ʃən/ (Australia)
• (Southern-England) audio

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.

Meanings

1. (Australia, UK, countable, qualifier:a mass noun, uncountable) 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.
   • Their accommodation that day was the Uganda Wildlife Authority Student Education Centre at Paraa. This area was not typically visited by foreign tourists because it offered only basic amenities. Lightly furnished rooms and shared bathrooms were found in the outbuildings. 2026 August 13, Nicholas Muhoro, “Dutch Medical Student Sophia Koetsier Vanished in Uganda in 2015. An Unknown Man’s DNA Was Later Found on Her Clothing”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2026:
   • So, it's settled. I'm going to Penzance. Hooray! I've even booked my accommodation. 2009 July 18, Alice-Azania Jarvis, “Alice-Azania Jarvis: 'A taste for seafood could break my holiday budget'”, in The Independent:
   • If you’re looking for a Caribbean adventure with luxurious accommodation then this is the place for you. 2015 October 7, Richard Harbourne, “St. Lucia”, in Travel Counsellors:
2. (countable, physical, uncountable, with-to) Adaptation or adjustment. ▸ The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; 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 1677, Sir Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind: Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, →OCLC, page 49:
3. (countable, physical, uncountable) Adaptation or adjustment. ▸ A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
   • ...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. 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:
   • 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. 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:
4. (countable, physical) Adaptation or adjustment. ▸ The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
5. (countable, physical) Adaptation or adjustment. ▸ The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
6. (countable, personal, uncountable) Adaptation or adjustment. ▸ Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
7. (countable, personal, uncountable) Adaptation or adjustment. ▸ Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
   • 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. 2005, Bryan Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, page 82:
8. (countable, personal) Adaptation or adjustment. ▸ The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
   • 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. 1794, William Paley, A View of the Evidences of Christianity, reprinted in 1818 by James Robertson, page 283
9. (countable, personal) Adaptation or adjustment. ▸ A loan of money.
10. (countable, personal) Adaptation or adjustment. ▸ An accommodation bill or note.
11. (countable, personal) Adaptation or adjustment. ▸ An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
12. (countable, personal, uncountable) 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.
13. (countable) The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
14. (countable, uncountable) 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), […] 2017 February 13, Annette Becker, Markus Bieswanger, Introduction to English Linguistics, UTB, →ISBN, page 178:

Forms

Deriveds

accommodation bridge · accommodation bill · accommodation paper · accommodation ladder · accommodation address · nonaccommodation · accommodational · accom · accommodation coach · dispersal accommodation · accommodation train · accommodationism · disaccommodation · house of accommodation · reaccommodation · accommodation line · underaccommodation · communication accommodation theory · accommodation house · accommodation on arrival · accommodationist · overaccommodation

Synonyms

housing

Translations (153)

pl akomodacja (state of being fitted and adapted) · th ที่พัก (lodging) · nn innkvartering (lodging) · id akomodasi (adjustment of the eye) · fa-ira مَسْکَن (lodging) · fi sopeutuminen (adjustment of the eye) · fi soveltuminen (state of being fitted and adapted) · bg жи́лище (lodging) · de Anpassung (state of being fitted and adapted) · es alojamiento (lodging) · nl logies (lodging) · vi nhá ở (lodging) · pt acomodação (adjustment of the eye) · ru приспособле́ние (state of being fitted and adapted) · mn байр (lodging) · ko 숙박 (lodging) · cs akomodace (adjustment of the eye) · km វាសនដ្ឋាន (lodging) · tr barındırma (lodging) · pl przystosowanie (state of being fitted and adapted) · sh smȅštāj (lodging) · pl akomodacja (linguistics) · id akomodasi (state of being fitted and adapted) · fi majoitus (lodging) · enm herbergage (lodging) · fa-ira تَطَابُق (adjustment of the eye) · io lojeyo (lodging) · ky турак үй (lodging) · ca acomodació (state of being fitted and adapted) · sh smjȅštāj (lodging) · be жыльлё (lodging) · nb innkvartering (lodging) · ca acomodació (linguistics) · ur رِہائِش (lodging) · my နေရာထိုင်ခင်း (lodging) · ru жили́ще (lodging) · mk сместување (lodging) · nl accommodatie (adjustment of the eye) · be раскватарава́нне (lodging) · he מְגוּרִים (lodging) · es acomodación (state of being fitted and adapted) · cmn 住宿 (lodging) · ms penginapan (lodging) · tg манзил (lodging) · ru жильё (lodging) · nl onderdak (lodging) · be жыллё (lodging) · hi आवास (lodging) · sq strehim (lodging) · is gisting (lodging) · cmn 調節 /调节 (state of being fitted and adapted) · cmn 膳宿 (lodging) · bg приспособя́ване (adjustment of the eye) · et majutus (lodging) · la accommodātiō (state of being fitted and adapted) · nn akkommodasjon (adjustment of the eye) · da indkvartering (lodging) · bg приви́кване (adjustment of the eye) · ar إِقَامَة (lodging) · nb akkommodasjon (adjustment of the eye) · nl aanpassing (state of being fitted and adapted) · sv tillfälligt boende (lodging) · pl akomodacja (adjustment of the eye) · ms permalaman (lodging) · he לִינָה (lodging) · bg кварти́ра (lodging) · eo akomodo (adjustment of the eye) · fr accommodation (adjustment of the eye) · fi mukautuminen (linguistics) · ja 宿泊 (lodging) · ja 調節 (adjustment of the eye) · cmn 調節 /调节 (adjustment of the eye) · cs ubytování (lodging) · km វសនដ្ឋាន (lodging) · uz turar joy (lodging) · be раскватарава́ньне (lodging) · sv anpassning (state of being fitted and adapted) · sk ubytovanie (lodging) · uz uy-joy (lodging) · ja 宿所 (lodging) · hu szállás (lodging) · pt acomodamento (state of being fitted and adapted) · fi sopeutuminen (linguistics) · kk көзикем (adjustment of the eye) · fr logement (lodging) · enm herberwe (lodging) · az yaşayış yeri (lodging) · fa-ira مَحَلِّ اِقامَت (lodging) · tr konaklama (lodging) · pt hospedagem (lodging) · tg маскан (lodging) · ja 設備 (state of being fitted and adapted) · fr accommodation (state of being fitted and adapted) · kk тұрғын үй (lodging) · ms penyesuaian (adjustment of the eye) · cmn 和解 (state of being fitted and adapted) · ca acomodació (lodging) · lo ທີ່ພັກ (lodging) · mk прилагодување (state of being fitted and adapted) · ms lojing (lodging) · ru расквартирова́ние (lodging) · it sistemazione (state of being fitted and adapted) · cmn 適應 /适应 (linguistics) · ja 調整 (adjustment of the eye) · ur رَہائِش (lodging) · sh смје̏шта̄ј (lodging) · uk житло́ (lodging) · sh сме̏шта̄ј (lodging) · hy կացարան (lodging) · da anpasning (state of being fitted and adapted) · mk привикнување (adjustment of the eye) · id akomodasi (lodging) · fa-ira اِقامَتْگاه (lodging) · sq akomodim (lodging) · fr hébergement (lodging) · nl onderkomen (lodging) · ca acomodament (lodging) · ka საცხოვრებელი (lodging) · de Übernachtung (lodging) · ru согласова́ние (state of being fitted and adapted) · alt јадатан јер (lodging) · it alloggio (state of being fitted and adapted) · hu szálláshely (lodging) · cmn 適應 /适应 (state of being fitted and adapted) · mi wharenoho (lodging) · ms akomodasi (lodging) · de Unterkunft (lodging) · vi phòng ở (lodging) · eo intertempa loĝejo (lodging) · ro cazare (lodging) · fa-ira مَنْزِل (lodging) · ru аккомода́ция (adjustment of the eye) · lv apmešanās (lodging) · ca acomodació (adjustment of the eye) · el κατάλυμα (lodging) · sv inkvartering (lodging) · pt alojamento (lodging) · uk розквартирува́ння (lodging) · lt apgyvendinimas (lodging) · ko 숙소 (lodging) · bg приспособя́ване (state of being fitted and adapted) · es acomodación (adjustment of the eye) · ms pemalaman (lodging) · sl nastanitev (lodging) · ml താമസം (lodging) · cmn 住處 /住处 (lodging) · tg иқоматгоҳ (lodging) · vi chỗ ở (lodging) · es acomodamiento (state of being fitted and adapted) · es hospedaje (lodging) · it alloggio (lodging) · pl zakwaterowanie (lodging) · pt acomodação (state of being fitted and adapted)