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accommodation

Academic Word List, sublist 9.

About 8.46 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc.
    I have booked the accommodation for my trip to Paris.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
  4. noun A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
  5. noun The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
  6. noun The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
  7. noun Adaptation or adjustment. 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. 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.
  8. noun Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

Similar words

adjustment fitting hostel lodgings lodging dormitory condo room guesthouse chamber

Often followed by

of for and to in is with was at

Word family

accommodate accommodated accommodates accommodating accommodational accommodations

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