Accommodates

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Offers enough room or capacity for someone or something to fit comfortably ; modifies or adapts to suit particular requirements or circumstances
2. Creates a place or environment where a person, group, or thing can be housed or included ; alters or adjusts to match specific demands or situations
3. Supplies adequate space for people or objects to be contained or accommodated ; changes or responds flexibly to meet varying conditions or needs

Etymology: The verb "accommodate" is built from a Latin phrase meaning "to make fit," and its core idea is still fit or measure. Its Latin ancestor "accommodare" combined "ad-", meaning "to, towards," with "commodare," which meant "to provide, lend, or make fit." That second verb grew from "commodus," an adjective meaning "suitable," itself formed from "con-" (together) and "modus," meaning "measure, proportion, or limit." So at the root of the word sits the notion of things being brought into proper measure with one another. English borrowed the word in the 1530s, straight from the Latin past participle "accommodatus." For its first few centuries it carried the sense of adapting one thing to another, or fitting a matter to a situation. The sense of providing space for people, lodging them or having room for them, came along as an extension of that fitting. A room that accommodates twenty guests is, in effect, a room whose size has been made to fit twenty people.

Synonyms: fits, suits, adjusts, adapts, provides

Antonyms: rejects, displaces, ignores, hinders, opposes