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Proto-Indo-European *ḱe

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Indo-European *med-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Italic *-āō

English accommodate

1530s, borrowed from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + commodō (“to provide, lend; to make fit, accommodate”), from con- + modus (“measure, proportion, limit”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix) (see English mode).

accommodate (third-person singular simple present accommodates, present participle accommodating, simple past and past participle accommodated)

  1. (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
    Synonyms: adapt, conform, adjust, arrange, suit
    to accommodate ourselves to circumstances
    • 1712 June 29 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele _et al._], “WEDNESDAY, June 18, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 475; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 15:
      IT is an old Obſervation, which has been made of Politicians who would rather ingratiate themſelves with their Sovereign, than promote his real Service, that they accommodate their Counſels to his Inclinations, and adviſe him to ſuch Actions only as his Heart is naturally ſet upon.
  2. (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
    Synonym: reconcile
    to accommodate differences
  3. (transitive) To provide housing for.
    Synonym: quarter
    to accommodate an old friend for a week
  4. (transitive) To provide sufficient space for.
    • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, pages 67–68:
      My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned.
  5. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.
    This venue accommodates three hundred people.
  6. (transitive) To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
    to accommodate a friend with a loan
  7. (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige.
    Synonym: oblige
  8. (transitive) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.
    to accommodate prophecy to events
  9. (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
  10. (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
  11. (intransitive, of an eye) To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.

to render fit or suitable

to cause to come into agreement

to provide housing for

to contain comfortably; have space for

to provide with something desired — see also satisfy

to do a favor or service for

to show the correspondence of; adapt to fit — see also adapt

rare: to adapt oneself

accommodate (comparative more accommodate, superlative most accommodate)

  1. (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
    • a. 1671, John Tillotson, Sermons Preach’d Upon Several Occaſions, London: A.M., page 181:
      God did not primarily intend to appoint this way of Worſhip, and to impoſe it upon them as that which was moſt proper and agreeable to him ; but that he condeſcended to it, as moſt accommodate to their preſent ſtate and inclination.

accommodātē (comparative accommodātius, superlative accommodātissimē)

  1. suitably

accommodate (third-person singular simple present accommodates, present participle accommodatin, simple past accomodatit, past participle accommodat)

  1. accommodate