accommodation

Meaning

  1. (British, countable, uncountable) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
  2. (countable, physical, uncountable, with-to) Adaptation or adjustment.
  3. (countable, physical, uncountable) Adaptation or adjustment.
  4. (countable, physical) Adaptation or adjustment.
  5. (countable, physical) Adaptation or adjustment.
  6. (countable, personal, uncountable) Adaptation or adjustment.
  7. (countable, personal, uncountable) Adaptation or adjustment.
  8. (countable, personal) Adaptation or adjustment.
  9. (countable, personal) Adaptation or adjustment.
  10. (countable, personal) Adaptation or adjustment.
  11. (countable, personal) Adaptation or adjustment.
  12. (countable, personal, uncountable) Adaptation or adjustment.
  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.

Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/
Etymology

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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