accommodation – English noun declension

English noun forms of accommodation

Noun: accommodation
Singularaccommodation
Pluralaccommodations

Sample Sentences

  • I have booked the accommodation for my trip to Paris.
  • So, it's settled. I'm going to Penzance. Hooray! I've even booked my accommodation. [2009 July 18, Alice-Azania Jarvis, “Alice-Azania Jarvis: 'A taste for seafood could break my holiday budget'”, in The Independent:]
  • Having returned to my accommodation and explained my hurriedly decided change of plans, I then drove back to Dublin for even more research. [2022 December 12, Bobbie Edes, “My Sad and Glad Tales of PRONI”, in Genealogical Society of Queensland, archived from the original on 24 May 2024:]
  • If you’re looking for a Caribbean adventure with luxurious accommodation then this is the place for you. [2015 October 7, Richard Harbourne, “St. Lucia”, in Travel Counsellors:]
  • It is true, the organization of the humane and animal Body, with accommodation to their several functions and offices, is certainly fitted with the most curious and exact Mechanism imaginable [1677, Sir Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind: Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, →OCLC, page 49:]
  • ...and Lady Anne, for the present, felt as if Fanchette and her coach full of accommodations, heavy as they might once be supposed to be, were suddenly swallowed up in that awful sea, to which so many refractory spirits have been exorcised and consigned. [1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 226:]
  • Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • [1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:]
  • Some of the recent literature on the Germanic settlements reads like an account of a tea party at the Roman vicarage. A shy newcomer to the village, who is a useful prospect for the cricket team, is invited in. There is a brief moment of awkwardness, while the host finds an empty chair and pours a fresh cup of tea; but the conversation, and village life, soon flow on. The accommodation that was reached between invaders and invaded in the fifth- and sixth-century West was very much more difficult, and more interesting, than this. [2005, Bryan Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, page 82:]
  • It is probable to my apprehension, that many of those quotations were intended by the writers of the New Testament as nothing more than accommodations. [1794, William Paley, A View of the Evidences of Christianity, reprinted in 1818 by James Robertson, page 283]
  • Pilots […] use the word fuselage whereas laypeople would more likely call the same "thing" the body of an aircraft. […] We have said above that speakers often signal that they belong to a certain group by making their language more similar to that of the other group members […] we thus adapt our language, dialect, accent, style and/or register to that of our addressee or addressees. This process is called speech accommodation. Among the reasons for accommodation may be our desire to identify more closely with the addressee(s), […] [2017 February 13, Annette Becker, Markus Bieswanger, Introduction to English Linguistics, UTB, →ISBN, page 178:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
3. Proto-Italic *ad
4. Proto-Italic *ad-
5. Latin ad-
6. Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
7. Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
8. Proto-Italic *kom
9. Proto-Italic *kom-
10. Latin com-
11. Proto-Indo-European *med-
12. Proto-Indo-European *-os
13. Proto-Italic *medos
14. Latin modus
15. Latin commodusnom.
16. Latin commodum
17. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
18. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
19. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
20. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
21. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
22. Proto-Italic *-ājō
23. Proto-Italic *-āō
24. Latin -ō
25. Latin commodō
26. Latin accommodō
27. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
28. Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
29. Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
30. Proto-Italic *-tiō
31. Latin -tiō
32. Latin accommodātiōnembor.
33. French accommodationbor.
34. English accommodation
35. From French accommodation, from Latin accommodātiō (“adjustment, accommodation, compliance”), from accommodō (“adapt, put in order”). Superficially accommodate + -ion. The sense of "lodging" was first attested in 1600. See: French Nouns 'accommodation', Latin Nouns 'accommodātiō'.