Accommodation: Definition and part of speech

Accommodation

  1. n. An accommodation bill or note.
  2. n. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; — followed by to.
  3. n. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
  4. n. Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; — often in the plural; as, the accommodations — that is, lodgings and food — at an inn.
  5. n. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.
  6. n. The application of a writer’s language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
  7. n. A loan of money.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Accommodate: Definition and part of speech

Accommodate

  1. a. Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
  2. v. t. To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
  3. v. t. To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
  4. v. t. To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
  5. v. t. 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.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
  6. v. i. To adapt one’s self; to be conformable or adapted.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.