Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: accommodate
IPA transcription: [ək'ɑməd,eɪt]
Pronunciations of accommodate
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verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: suit, accommodate, fit
    Meaning: be agreeable or acceptable to; "This suits my needs"
  • Synonyms: adapt, accommodate
    Meaning: make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"
  • Synonyms: accommodate
    Meaning: provide with something desired or needed; "Can you accommodate me with a rental car?"
  • Synonyms: accommodate, hold, admit
    Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
  • We cannot overturn the whole scheme to accommodate the buzzard.
  • But man's body and mind accommodate themselves to almost any condition.
  • This good woman seemed very willing to accommodate the strangers, who were soon compelled to accept the only two beds in the place.
  • So she hired a carpenter and built what is called a "lean-to" at the right of her cottage, making it just big enough to accommodate the four new members of her family.
  • Then came the consideration that only two of the buccaneer ships were seaworthy--and these could not accommodate the whole force, particularly being at the moment indifferently victualled for a long voyage.
  • But the school is quite full, as you know; so at first I was uncertain that I could accommodate you here; but Miss Dandler, my assistant, has given up her room to you and I shall put a bed for her in my own sleeping chamber, so that difficulty is now happily arranged.
  • The inquiring spirit which had been roused by a single abuse had discovered or imagined a thousand: controversies engendered controversies: every attempt that was made to accommodate one dispute ended by producing another; and at length a General Council, which, during the earlier stages of the distemper, had been supposed to be an infallible remedy, made the case utterly hopeless.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Manchester, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Neuschwanstein Castle, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, License CC BY-SA 4.0