accomodation

Noun

accommodation (countable and uncountable, plural accommodations)

1. (Australia, UK, a mass 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.

   Synonyms:

   housing

2. (physical, with-to) The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
   • It is true, the organization of the humane and animal Body, with accommodation to their several functions and offices, is certainly fitted with the most curious and exact Mechanism imaginable1677, Sir Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind: Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, →OCLC, page 49
3. (physical) A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
   • ...and Lady Anne, for the present, felt as if Fanchette and her coach full of accommodations, heavy as they might once be supposed to be, were suddenly swallowed up in that awful sea, to which so many refractory spirits have been exorcised and consigned.1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 226
4. (countable, physical) The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
5. (countable, physical) The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
6. (personal) Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

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