Meaning

14 senses
  1. (Australia, UK, countable, 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.

    Unterkunft, Übernachtung

    жильёžilʹjó, расквартирова́ниеraskvartirovánije, жили́щеžilíšče

    житло́žytló, розквартирува́нняrozkvartyruvánnja

  2. Adaptation or adjustment.

    (countable, physical, uncountable, with to)The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.

    Anpassung

    согласова́ниеsoglasovánije, приспособле́ниеprisposoblénije

  3. (countable, physical, uncountable)A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.

  4. (countable, physical)The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.

  5. (countable, physical)The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.

    аккомода́цияakkomodácija

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

  6. (countable, personal, uncountable)Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

  7. (countable, personal, uncountable)Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.

    a settlement of differences

  8. (countable, personal)The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

  9. (countable, personal)A loan of money.

  10. (countable, personal)An accommodation bill or note.

  11. (countable, personal)An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.

  12. (countable, personal, uncountable)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.

Examples

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  1. Did the accommodations meet with your approval?

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  2. We need accommodation for six.

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  3. Tom complained about the accommodations.

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  4. He called a hotel for accommodations.

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  5. I'm looking for reasonably-priced accommodations.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
lodging:
Русский
By meaning 3
lodging:
state of being fitted and adapted:
adjustment of the eye:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
lodging:
state of being fitted and adapted:

Origin

From French accommodation, from Latin accommodātiō (“adjustment, accommodation, compliance

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.

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