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accommodation.

Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc.

13 characters5 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/UK/əˌkɑ.məˈdeɪ.ʃən/Canada, US/əˌkɔm.əˈdæɪ.ʃən/Australia
  1. Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc.

    Australia · UK · countable · uncountable
    I have booked the accommodation for my trip to Paris.
  2. Adaptation or adjustment. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.

    countable · physical · uncountable · with-to
  3. Adaptation or adjustment. A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.

    countable · physical · uncountable
  4. Adaptation or adjustment. The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.

    countable · physical
  5. Adaptation or adjustment. The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.

    countable · physical
  6. Adaptation or adjustment. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

    countable · personal · uncountable
  7. Adaptation or adjustment. Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.

    countable · personal · uncountable
  8. Adaptation or adjustment. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

    countable · personal
  9. Adaptation or adjustment. A loan of money.

    countable · personal
  10. Adaptation or adjustment. An accommodation bill or note.

    countable · personal
  11. Adaptation or adjustment. An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.

    countable · personal
  12. Adaptation or adjustment. An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness.

    countable · personal · uncountable
  13. The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.

    countable
  14. Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

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-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō 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.

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