accommodation

Meaning

Noun

• Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
• Adaptation or adjustment.
• Adaptation or adjustment.
• The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
• Modifications to make one's way of speaking similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse; code-switching.

Origin

• From French accommodation, from Latin accommodātiō ("adjustment, accommodation, compliance"), from accommodō. Superficially accommodate + -ion. The sense of "lodging" was first attested in 1600.