accommodate

Verb
Synonyms: suitfitadaptholdadmitlodgeobligereconcileconciliate

WordNet 3.0

Verb (7)

  1. be agreeable or acceptable to“This suits my needs”Synonyms: suitfit
  2. make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose“Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country”Synonyms: adapt
  3. provide with something desired or needed“Can you accommodate me with a rental car?”
  4. have room for; hold without crowding“This hotel can accommodate 250 guests”“The theater admits 300 people”“The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people”Synonyms: holdadmit
  5. provide housing for“We are lodging three foreign students this semester”Synonyms: lodge
  6. provide a service or favor for someone“We had to oblige him”Synonyms: oblige
  7. make (one thing) compatible with (another)“The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories”Synonyms: reconcileconciliate
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Accommodate \Ac*com"mo*date\, v. i. To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. [R.] --Boyle. [1913 Webster]
Accommodate \Ac*com"mo*date\, a. [L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare.] Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. [Archaic] --Tillotson. [1913 Webster]
Accommodate \Ac*com"mo*date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accommodated; p. pr. & vb. n. Accommodating.] [L. accommodatus, p. p. of accommodare; ad + commodare to make fit, help; con- + modus measure, proportion. See Mode.]

1.To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. "They accommodate their counsels to his inclination." --Addison. [1913 Webster]

2.To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc. [1913 Webster]

3.To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings. [1913 Webster]

4.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. [1913 Webster]

Syn: To suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange. [1913 Webster]

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