Origin: Latin suffix -ate
Accommodate has 9 different meanings across 1 category:
make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
"Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"
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"
make (one thing) compatible with (another)
"The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories"
To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
"The architect had to accommodate the new structural requirements by redesigning the entire floor plan."
In plain English: To accommodate means to make space for someone else by changing your plans or giving them what they need.
"The hotel can accommodate up to two hundred guests during the summer season."
Usage: Use accommodate when you mean to adjust something so it fits a specific need or requirement, such as changing plans for someone's schedule. It is often confused with comply, but while complying means obeying rules, accommodating implies making an adjustment to suit another person or situation.
Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
"The old theater was not large enough to accommodate the modern projection equipment needed for the film."
In plain English: Accommodating describes someone who is helpful and willing to make things easier for others by changing their plans or behavior.
"The spacious hotel can accommodate hundreds of guests at once."
In the 1530s, this word was borrowed from Latin accommodatus, meaning "made fit" or "adapted." It originally combined elements meaning "to" and "measure," reflecting the idea of adjusting something to a proper limit.