ACCOMMODATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accommodate mean? 

• ACCOMMODATE (verb)
  The verb ACCOMMODATE has 7 senses:

1. be agreeable or acceptable to

2. make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose

3. provide with something desired or needed

4. have room for; hold without crowding

5. provide housing for

6. provide a service or favor for someone

7. make (one thing) compatible with (another)

  Familiarity information: ACCOMMODATE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCOMMODATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they accommodate    ... he / she / it accommodates   
Past simple: accommodated   
Past participle: accommodated   
-ing form: accommodating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be agreeable or acceptable to

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

accommodate; fit; suit

Context example:

This suits my needs

Hypernyms (to "accommodate" is one way to...):

conform to; fill; fit; fulfil; fulfill; meet; satisfy (fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restriction)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

accommodation (making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances)

accommodative (willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

accommodate; adapt

Context example:

Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country

Hypernyms (to "accommodate" is one way to...):

alter; change; vary (become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accommodate"):

gear; pitch (set the level or character of)

transcribe (rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended)

electrify; wire (equip for use with electricity)

naturalise; naturalize (adopt to another place)

Christianize (adapt in the name of Christianity)

cultivate; domesticate; naturalise; naturalize; tame (adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment)

domesticate; tame (make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans)

orient; tailor (adjust to a specific need or market)

shoehorn (fit for a specific purpose even when not well suited)

anglicise; anglicize (make English in appearance)

fit (insert or adjust several objects or people)

adjust (make correspondent or conformable)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

accommodation (in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality)

accommodation (making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Provide with something desired or needed

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Context example:

Can you accommodate me with a rental car?

Hypernyms (to "accommodate" is one way to...):

cater; ply; provide; supply (give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody with something

Derivation:

accommodation (the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Have room for; hold without crowding

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

accommodate; admit; hold

Context example:

The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people

Verb group:

contain; hold; take (be capable of holding or containing)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accommodate"):

sleep (be able to accommodate for sleeping)

house (contain or cover)

seat (be able to seat)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Provide housing for

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

accommodate; lodge

Context example:

We are lodging three foreign students this semester

Hypernyms (to "accommodate" is one way to...):

domiciliate; house; put up (provide housing for)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accommodate"):

barrack (lodge in barracks)

keep (supply with room and board)

billet; canton; quarter (provide housing for (military personnel))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

accommodation (the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need)

accommodation (living quarters provided for public convenience)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Provide a service or favor for someone

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

accommodate; oblige

Context example:

We had to oblige him

Hypernyms (to "accommodate" is one way to...):

abide by; comply; follow (act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

accommodation (the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need)

accommodative (helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation)

accommodator (someone who performs a service or does a favor)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Make (one thing) compatible with (another)

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

accommodate; conciliate; reconcile

Context example:

The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories

Hypernyms (to "accommodate" is one way to...):

harmonise; harmonize (bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

accommodation (in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality)

accommodation (a settlement of differences)

accommodation (making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances)

 Context examples 

“The practice is quiet,” said I, “and I have an accommodating neighbour. I should be glad to come.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Reader, though I look comfortably accommodated, I am not very tranquil in my mind.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"I am much obliged to you," was her answer, "but I am not going with them. The carriage would not accommodate so many. I walk: I prefer walking."

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

But I was in a short time better accommodated, as the reader shall know hereafter, when I come to treat more particularly about my way of living.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

‘Not at all,’ said I, ‘I shall be very happy to accommodate myself to your wishes.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was fit, that was all, and unconsciously he accommodated himself to the new mode of life.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It is estimated that not fewer than forty-seven persons must have been accommodated with dinner at one time, exclusive of the company in the passage and on the stairs.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Tree sloths require specialized limb adaptations, reduced body mass, a slow metabolic rate and claws that act like fulcrums — hooks to accommodate the animals' need to hang onto and traverse treetops.

(Putting the sloth in sloths: Arboreal lifestyle drives slow pace, NSF)

Mr. Weston's dining-room does not accommodate more than ten comfortably; and for my part, I would rather, under such circumstances, fall short by two than exceed by two.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The friendliness of his disposition made him happy in accommodating those, whose situation might be considered, in comparison with the past, as unfortunate.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)