accessible

CEFRB2

/əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/

adjective

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adjective
Easy to reach, use, enter, or understand.
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adjective
Extra detail
Built or designed as to be usable by people with disabilities.

Examples

New York is accessible by train from Washington.
The remote desert area is accessible only by helicopter.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 4

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adjective

Extra meanings

Easy to get along with.
Easy of access or approach.
Obtainable; to be got at.

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In context

The town is accessible by rail.
an accessible town or mountain
accessible public transport

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The museum is fully blank to visitors with physical disabilities via elevators.

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At first sight it would seem that the deep interior of the sun and stars is less accessible to scientific investigation than any other region of the universe.
1926, A[rthur] [S]tanley Eddington, “Survey of the Problem”, in The Internal Constitution of the Stars, page 1
The materials, however, which are at present accessible, are sufficient for the construction of a narrative not to be read without shame and loathing.
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
But something new was rippling through a million MySpace profiles. The sound was electro, and bass-laced synthetic dance pop would soon start streaming in from producers in Paris, dizzying the twenteens of Britain with its accessible, anthemic funk.
2015, Rose Bretécher, Pure, →ISBN
As well as the boom in off-peak leisure numbers, "there has been a big spike in passenger assistance - that's really taken off as well", he continues. "We're probably victims of our own success because we promote this more than we ever used to. We promote how accessible the railways are. I think that this area has more than doubled from pre-COVID levels.
2023 November 1, Nick Brodrick talks to Jason Cocker, “A station that "oozes" customer service...”, in RAIL, number 995, pages 52-53
Minds accessible to reason.
1890, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of Herodotus

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Origin

adjective

First attested in 1400, from French, from Late Latin accessibilis, from accessus, perfect passive participle of accēdō (“approach”), equivalent to access + -ible.

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The museum is fully blank— to visitors with physical disabilities via elevators.

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adjective

The museum is fully blank to visitors with physical disabilities via elevators.