English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Accommodate (v. i.)

To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted.

Accommodate (a.)

Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

Accommodated (imp. & p. p.)

of Accommodate

Accommodately (adv.)

Suitably; fitly.

Accommodateness (n.)

Fitness.

Accommodating (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Accommodate

Accommodating (a.)

Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.

Accommodation (n.)

The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.

Accommodation (n.)

Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

Accommodation (n.)

Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn.

Accommodation (n.)

An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.

Accommodation (n.)

The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

Accommodation (n.)

A loan of money.

Accommodation (n.)

An accommodation bill or note.

Accommodator (n.)

He who, or that which, accommodates.

Accompanable (a.)

Sociable.

Accompanied (imp. & p. p.)

of Accompany

Accompanier (n.)

He who, or that which, accompanies.

Accompaniment (n.)

That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.

Accompaniment (n.)

A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a figured bass.