accommodation
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (6)accommodations
- making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstancesSynonyms: adjustmentfittingType of improvement, bettermentKinds readjustment, shakedown, habituation, domestication
- a settlement of differences“they reached an accommodation with Japan”Type of settlementKinds compromise, modus vivendi
- in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of realityType of developmental learning
- living quarters provided for public convenience“the nearby hotel offers overnight accommodation”Type of living quarters, quartersKinds lodging house, tourist class, first class, steerage, stabling, cabin class
- the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a needType of aid, assistKinds service
- (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eyeType of alteration, modification
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. accommodatio, fr. accommodare: cf. F. accommodation.
1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; — followed by to. “The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.” Sir Matt. Hale
2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
3. Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; — often in the plural; as, the accommodations — that is, lodgings and food — at an inn. Sir Walter Scott
4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. “To come to terms of accommodation.” Thomas Babington Macaulay
5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations.— Paley, William
6. Commerce (a) A loan of money. (b) An accommodation bill or note.
Accommodation bill, or note Commerce, a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit. — Accommodation coach, or train, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. — Accommodation ladder Nautical, a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54