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Dormitory vs Accommodate - What's the difference?

dormitory | accommodate |

As a noun dormitory

is a room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind common abbreviation: dorm.

As a verb accommodate is

(transitive|often|reflexive) to render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

As an adjective accommodate is

(label) suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

dormitory

Noun

(dormitories)
  • A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind. Common abbreviation: dorm
  • A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
  • Short for dormitory town, a suburban or rural settlement housing city workers
  • (Dormitory town)

    Synonyms

    * Common abbreviation: dorm

    See also

    * dorter, dortoir, dortour

    accommodate

    English

    Verb

    (accommodat)
  • (transitive, often, reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
  • They accommodate their counsels to his inclination. -
  • To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.
  • To provide housing for; to furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.
  • To do a favor or service for; to oblige;
  • To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.
  • To give consideration to; to allow for.
  • To contain comfortably; to have space for.
  • (rare) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
  • Synonyms

    * suit; adapt; conform; adjust; arrange.

    Antonyms

    * (obsolete) discommodate

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (label) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
  • * John Tillotson
  • God did not primarily intend to appoint this way of worship, and to impose it upon them as that which was most proper and agreeable to him; but that he condescended to it as most accommodate to their present state and inclination.