How do you use the word "accommodation" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "accommodation": The hotel has good accommodation. The hotel has accommodation for one hundred.

Accommodation Meaning

/əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounLodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc.

nounAdaptation or adjustment., The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.

Sentence Examples

The hotel has good accommodation.

The hotel has accommodation for one hundred.

Accommodation ranges from tourist class to luxury hotels.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

adjustment

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

Due to the heavy snowfall, we had to find overnight ____ in a nearby hotel.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Travelers are advised to book their ____ well in advance.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin com- Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *medos Latin modus Latin commodusnom. Latin commodum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin commodō Latin accommodō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin accommodātiōnembor. French accommodationbor. English accommodation 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.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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:

"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:

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