Other forms: accommodations
Accommodation is any place you stay and sleep while travelling. Find accommodation, student accommodation, the accommodation is basic.
In British use it is uncountable — accommodation for four, not accommodations — where American English uses the plural. It is the formal word that covers hotels, hostels, rented rooms and student halls together. The other sense is an adjustment or compromise: reach an accommodation with somebody. Note that accommodation is among the most misspelt words in English, with two c's and two m's.
1nounaccommodationA place to stay and sleep.
“The price of the trip includes flights and accommodation in a small hotel.”
2nounadjustmentAn adjustment or compromise.
“The two sides reached an accommodation that let both claim victory.”
accommodation is lodging, or a compromise.
Also accepted in games: lodging
Latin accommodatio comes from accommodare, to fit to — ad plus commodus, suitable. Commodity and commode come from the same suitability.
French
accommodation
English, today
accommodation
Built from
Borrowed from French 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA