Dictionary Entry
accommodate
accommodate is a 11-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 24 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
- 2transitive verb
To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
- 3transitive verb
To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
- 4transitive verb
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.
- 5intransitive verb
To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.
- 6adjective
Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
- 7verb
make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
"Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"
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- 8verb
make (one thing) compatible with (another)
"The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories"
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- 9verb
provide a service or favor for someone
"We had to oblige him"
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- 10verb
provide with something desired or needed
"Can you accommodate me with a rental car?"
- 11verb
provide housing for
"We are lodging three foreign students this semester"
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- 12verb
be agreeable or acceptable to
"This suits my needs"
- 13verb
have room for; hold without crowding
"This hotel can accommodate 250 guests"
"The theater admits 300 people"
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