Definition of "accommodate" in English

verb

1. (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.

   • to accommodate ourselves to circumstances

2. (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.

   • to accommodate differences

3. (transitive) To provide housing for.

   • to accommodate an old friend for a week

4. (transitive) To provide sufficient space for.

5. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.

   • This venue accommodates three hundred people.

6. (transitive) To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.

   • to accommodate a friend with a loan

7. (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige.

8. (transitive) 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.

   • to accommodate prophecy to events

9. (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.

10. (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.

11. (intransitive, of an eye) To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.

adjective

1. (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.