Definition of "accommodation" in English

noun

1. (chiefly British, usually a mass noun) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.

   • The accommodations at that hotel were quite luxurious.

2. (physical) Adaptation or adjustment.

3. (personal) Adaptation or adjustment.

4. (countable, geology) The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.

5. (linguistics, sociolinguistics) Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.