MEANING
1. To provide room, lodging, or capacity for someone or something.
2. To adjust something or oneself to suit needs, wishes, or conditions.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- accommodate guests
- accommodate a collection
On the page
The house could accommodate the guests only if they shared the upper rooms.
The archive was rebuilt to accommodate the collection.
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Word forms
- Base
- accommodate
- Past tense
- accommodated
- Past participle
- accommodated
- Present participle
- accommodating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- accommodate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are accommodating
- Present perfect
- have/has accommodated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been accommodating
- Past
- accommodated
- Past continuous
- was/were accommodating
- Past perfect
- had accommodated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been accommodating
- Future
- will accommodate
- Future continuous
- will be accommodating
- Future perfect
- will have accommodated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been accommodating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: accommodate; accommodates; accommodated; accommodated; accommodating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: accommodates.
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