accommodate

The word “accommodate” means to provide someone with a place to stay or space to fit. In plain terms, to make room for someone, or to adjust something so it suits a person's needs.

“Accommodate” is pronounced uh-KO-muh-dayt (/əˈkɑməˌdeɪt/ in IPA).

Here is “accommodate” used in a sentence: “The hotel can accommodate up to four hundred guests.”

The opposite of “accommodate” — its antonyms — is discommodate.

“Accommodate” is a verb.

The word “accommodate” comes from Latin. From Latin accommodare, "to make fit," built from ad- ("to") plus commodus ("suitable, convenient") — the same root that gives us "commodity.".

“Accommodate” is a fairly common word in modern English.

“Accommodate” has 2 distinct senses listed in this dictionary. The most common is: to provide someone with a place to stay or space to fit.

Accommodate has two c's and two m's, which makes it one of the most commonly misspelled words in English. A useful memory aid is that accommodate is roomy enough to hold a double c and a double m; spellings like "accomodate" and "acommodate" are always incorrect.

To accommodate is to adjust to someone else's needs or wishes, or to provide them with space or lodging, so the focus is on the other party. To adapt is to change something, or yourself, to suit new conditions in general. A hotel accommodates guests; a species adapts to its environment.

When the object is a person, accommodate takes a direct object with no preposition: "we can accommodate you," not "accommodate to you." The pattern "accommodate to" appears mainly in formal or technical writing about adjusting to conditions, as in "the eye accommodates to changing light."