accommodate

Meanings

Verb

  • To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
  • To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
  • To provide housing for.
  • To provide sufficient space for
  • To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
  • To do a favor or service for; to oblige.
  • 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 give consideration to; to allow for.
  • To contain comfortably; to have space for.
  • To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
  • To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.

Adjective

  • Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

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Origin

  • 1530s, from Latin accommodatus, perfect passive participle of accommodo; ad + commodō; com- + modus (English mode).

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