accommodationとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ə.ˌkɒm.ə.ˈdeɪ.ʃən/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ə.ˌkɑm.ə.ˈdeɪ.ʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

accommodation (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 accommodations)

2. (chiefly Britain, usually a mass noun) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.

   The accommodations at that hotel were quite luxurious.

3. (physical) Adaptation or adjustment.
   1. (countable, uncountable, followed by to) The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
      • 1677, Sir Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind: Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, →OCLC, page 49:

        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

   2. (countable, uncountable) A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
      • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 10, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

        Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.

   3. (countable, physiology, biology) The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
   4. (countable, medicine) The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
4. (personal) Adaptation or adjustment.
   1. (countable, uncountable) Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
   2. (countable, uncountable) Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
      • 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 1069526323:

      • 2005, Bryan Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, p. 82:

        Some of the recent literature on the Germanic settlements reads like an account of a tea party at the Roman vicarage. A shy newcomer to the village, who is a useful prospect for the cricket team, is invited in. There is a brief moment of awkwardness, while the host finds an empty chair and pours a fresh cup of tea; but the conversation, and village life, soon flow on. The accommodation that was reached between invaders and invaded in the fifth- and sixth-century West was very much more difficult, and more interesting, than this.

   3. (countable) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
      • 1794, William Paley, A View of the Evidences of Christianity, reprinted in 1818 by James Robertson, page 283:

        It is probable to my apprehension, that many of those quotations were intended by the writers of the New Testament as nothing more than accommodations.

   4. (countable, commerce) A loan of money.
   5. (countable, commerce) An accommodation bill or note.
   6. (countable, law) An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
   7. (theology) An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness.
5. (countable, geology) The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
6. (linguistics, sociolinguistics) Modifications to make one's way of speaking similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse; code-switching.

派生語

• accommodation address
• accommodation bill
• accommodation coach
• accommodation ladder
• accommodation on arrival
• accommodation paper
• accommodation train
• accommodational
• communication accommodation theory
• holiday accommodation
• house of accommodation
• overaccommodation
• reaccommodation
• underaccommodation

Further reading

• accommodation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• accommodation at OneLook Dictionary Search