accommodation
Meanings
- Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc.
- Adaptation or adjustment.
- The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
- A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
- The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
- The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
- Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
- Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
- The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
- A loan of money.
- An accommodation bill or note.
- An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
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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 *-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.