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ACCOMODATE

Date "ACCOMODATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references)

"ACCOMODATE" is a common misspelling or typo for: accommodate, accommodated.


Crosswords: ACCOMODATE

English words defined with "ACCOMODATE": PlatonizeSelf-adjusting bearing. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ACCOMODATE": Adaptive Digital Pulse Code Modulation, aeroplane hangar, airplane hangarbar holdgun baymechanical roomservice room, service space, spread spectrum communicationstang holdvertically movable. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: ACCOMODATE

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View showing part of one of the three large cafeterias in the yard to accomodate the numerous civil service workers. Credit: Library of Congress.

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. More space for making bomb dies. The owner of a small factory and his wife inspect blue prints of the addition they need to accomodate their war production, on orders. Fifty, instead of seven men, wi. Credit: Library of Congress.

Entrance to rooming house and lodge hall, Silverton, Colorado. There are always many rooming and boarding houses in mining towns to accomodate the large number of single men working in the mines and mills. Credit: Library of Congress.

A dairy barn at Kymulga (about six miles from Childersburg, Alabama) converted into a three-story bunk house to accomodate workers as a result of the expected increase in employment at the nearby powder plant. Several other farm buildings have been conver. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: ACCOMODATE

"ACCOMODATE" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "ACCOMODATE" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)91.67%11106,044
Lexical Verb (base form)8.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%12N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: ACCOMODATE

Expression using "ACCOMODATE": to accomodate. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ACCOMODATE

Language Translations for "ACCOMODATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

help (abet, aid, assist, help), eindig (come to an end, end, end up, expire, finish, terminate). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

ajudar (aid, assist, help, to help), acabar (end, finish, terminate, use up), servir (to serve). (various references)

   

Danish

  

hjælpe (aid, assist, help), fuldende (end, finish, prepare, terminate). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

accommoderen, aanpassen (accommodate, adapt, adjust, attempt, attune, fit, fix, mount, place, test, try, try on, tune). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

akomodi, helpi (aid, assist, help), gastigi (entertain, put up), fini (end, finish, terminate), fari servon, doni loĝejon. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

laga eftir, hjálpa (abet, aid, assist, contribute, help), enda (end, finish, terminate). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

auttaa (aid, assist, be of use, help, lend a hand, remedy, support, to help), lopetta (end, finish, terminate). (various references)

   

French

  

terminer (achieve), finir, cesser, ajuster. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

dien meitsje (end, finish, terminate), besljochtsje (end, finish, terminate), ôfmeitsje (end, finish, terminate). (various references)

   

German

  

anpassen (accommodate, adapt, adjust, attune, blend in, bring into line, fit, fit on, fix, key, match, modulate, mount, place, readjust, re-adjust, suit, take one's measure for, to acclimatize, to adapt, to assimilate, to modulate, tune), anbequemen, helfen (abet, aid, aiding, assist, avail, be of help to, cure, give a hand, help, lend a hand, relieve, to aid, to assist, to avail, to lend a hand, to second), gastieren (entertain, put up), erledigen (attend, carry out, crank through, deal with, dispatch, do in, end, finish, finish off, get through with, handle, knock out, process, release, ruin, see to, settle, shatter, take care of, terminate, to attend, to deal with, to dispose, to finish, to see to, to take care of, wear out), endigen (come to an end, end, end up, expire, finish, terminate), enden (cease, come to an end, end, end up, ends, expire, finish, run out, terminate, to conclude (with), to end, upshots, wind up), beschließen (choose, conclude, decide, decide on, determine, end, end off, establish, finish, fix, resolve, terminate, to conclude, to determine, vote in, wind up), beistehen (abet, aid, assist, help, see through, stand by), beispringen (aid, assist, help), beherbergen (accommodate, entertain, give shelter to, Harbor, harbour, house, Lodge, put up, take in), beendigen (end, finish, terminate, to end, to finish), beenden (adjourn, be at the end of one's tether, bring to an end, cancel, cease, complete, conclude, determine, discontinue, end, exit, finalize, finish, serve out, stop, terminate, to break up, to conclude, to determine, to finalize, to finish, to finite, to truncate, unquote). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

segít (abet, aid, assist, help, lean, minister, relieve, succor, succour, support, sustain, to aid, to assist, to avail, to back up, to bear a hand, to help, to lend a hand, to minister, to stead, to succour, to support). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

hjálpa (aid, assist, help). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menyesuaikan (accomplish, adapt), menampung (store), memuat (lade, load). (various references)

   

Italian

  

aiutare (abet, aid, assist, befriend, help, help each other, help oneself, relieve, render, see through, stimulate, succor, succour, support, to help), terminare (come out, conclude, end, finish, pull off, terminate), finire (accomplish, cease, close, complete, conclude, do, end, expire, finish, get to, kill, pass, run out, sell out, spend, stop, terminate). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

行在所 (temporary lodging built to accomodate an Imperial visit), 行宮 (temporary lodging built to accomodate an Imperial visit). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

あ"ぐう (temporary lodging built to accomodate an Imperial visit), あ"ざいしょ (temporary lodging built to accomodate an Imperial visit). (various references)

   

Malay

  

bantu ... membantu (aid, assist, cooperate, co-operate, help). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

hjelpe (abet, aid, assist, help). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

asistí (abet, aid, assist, attend, be present, help, witness), akomodá, yuda (abet, aid, assist, help), terminá (end, finish, terminate), kaba (end, finish, terminate), finalisá (end, finish, terminate). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

accomodateay

   

Polish

  

pomagać, kończyć. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

auxiliar (accessorial, adjunct, adjuvant, aid, ancillary, assist, assistant, auxilary, auxiliary, avail, back, cad, candle-holder, favor, favour, friend, hand, handy man, help, helper, lend a hand, minister, ministerial, patronize, preventer, protect, relieve, second, secondary, subsidiary, succor, succour, support), arranjar (achieve, acquire, adjust, arrange, calculate, catch, collate, curry, do, do up, dress, fare, figure out, filibeg, find, fix, fix up, get, lay, lay out, make, nib, obtain, order, organize, patch, pick, pick up, pitch, place, prepare, procure, put in order, remake, schedule, settle, size, square up, tidy, titivate, to arrange, trim), ajustar (adapt, adjust, agree on, attune, bargain, close, compromise, contract, fettle, fit, fix, level, make a contract, make up, mount, place, put right, put up, rectify, regulate, settle, suit, tune), ajudar (abet, aid, assist, avail, back, befriend, benefit, encourage, further, help, lend a hand, minister, pilot, relieve, serve, subserve, succor, succour, support, to help), adaptar (acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, adapt, adjust, attemper, attune, calculate, fashion, figure out, fit out, naturalize, place, proportion, put right, put up, straighten out, suit, tune), acomodar (accommodate, accommodating, adapt, arrange, attemper, attune, berth, compose, contain, have room for, have space for, locate, place, put up, settle, tune), acabar (buzz, carry through, cease, come to an end, conclude, consummate, end, expire, finish, phase out, round, squelch, terminate), terminar (close, come to an end, cut off, discontinue, end, end up, expire, finish, finish off, get through, nail down, pull the plug, squelch, stop, terminate), socorrer (help, relieve, rescue, succor, succour), hospedar (accept, board, entertain, hand in, house, lodge, put up, receive), finalizar (conclude, end, finalize, finish, phase out, terminate, tie up loose ends), encerrar (chamber, close, closet, coffin, contain, embay, encase, enclose, finish, girdle, hoop, imply, impound, incase, inclose, lock, lock in, mure, shut, shut in, shut up, terminate, wind up). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

ajuta (abet, advantage, aid, answer, assist, avail, back up, befriend, benefit, carry, carry through, comfort, encourage, fillip, help, minister to, promote, prop, push, relieve, second, serve, succor, succour, support, sustain), termina (accomplish, achieve, bring to an end, clear up, close, complete, conclude, do, end, finish, get over, have done, liquidate, mop up, pack it in, shoot away, spend, stop, terminate, wind up). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

cuidich (aid, assist, help). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

terminar (break, break off, call it a day, close up, come, complete, conclude, discontinue, dispose of, end, end up, expire, finish, finish off, follow up, go out, leave off, let up, sign off, stay, stop, terminate, throw over), servir (answer, attend, bear arms, bring in, dish up, do, help, issue, pour out, put on, serve, serve up, wait, wait at table, wait on, wait upon), ayudar (abet, advance, aid, assist, befriend, boost, dole, Favor, favour, help, help along, help out, help smb. out, lean, lend a hand, pull up, subserve, support, tide over), concluir (close, come, complete, conclude, dispose of, end, finish, infer, lock, terminate, tie up, top off, wind up), adaptar (accommodate, adapt, adjust, affiliate, apply, arrange, attune, fit, fix, mount, place, put up, scale, suit, tune), acomodar (accommodate, adapt, adjust, attune, fit, fix, mount, place, put up, suit, tune, usher in), acabar (accomplish, break off, come, complement, complete, discontinue, eat up, end, expire, finish, follow up, get over, give over, go out, hole, knock off, land, leave off, let up, play out, round off, terminate, throw over, top off, use up, wash out, waste, wind up, work out). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

asisteri (abet, aid, assist, help), yepi (abet, aid, assist, help), stanbay (abet, aid, assist, help), lepi (abet, aid, assist, help, mature, ripe, ripen). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hjälpa (aid, assist, be helped, befriend, Favor, favour, forward, help, minister, relieve, serve, succour, support), fullborda (accomplish, complete, consummate, end, finalize, finish, fulfil, fulfill, terminate), biträda (accede, accede to, aid, assist, help, support), ända (all the same, bit, butt, conclusion, end, ending, fag end, finish, heel, piece, posterior, rear, right, switch, terminate, termination, tip). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

bítírmek (end, finish, terminate). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

яerleюdirmek (lay). (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

aantik (aid, assist, help), ts'oksik (end, finish, terminate). (various references)

   

Zulu

  

-siza (abet, aid, assist, help), -qeda (complete, end, finish, terminate). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: ACCOMODATE

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

adiutare, adiuvare, iuvare. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: ACCOMODATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-m-o-o-t"

-3 letters: coacted, cocomat.

-4 letters: caeoma, coated, comade, comate, comedo, decoct, macaco, moated, mooted, tomcod.

-5 letters: aceta, acted, cacao, cadet, caeca, cameo, coact, cocoa, codec, comae, comet, comte, cooed, coted, maced, mated, mecca, mooed, octad, tamed.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-m-o-o-t"
 

+1 letter: accommodate.

 

+2 letters: accommodated, accommodates.

 

+3 letters: accommodative.

 

+4 letters: unaccommodated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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