say it: uh-kah-muh-DAY-shuhn
accommodation is a noun meaning "making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances". It carries 6 recorded senses.
making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
a settlement of differences
“they reached an accommodation with Japan”
in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality
living quarters provided for public convenience
“overnight accommodations are available”
(physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye
physiology
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for accommodation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.