Abode vs Accommodation - What's the difference?
abode | accommodation |
(obsolete) Act of waiting; delay.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.viii:
(obsolete) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
* 1661 , , [http://archive.org/stream/a615775104worduoft/a615775104worduoft_djvu.txt The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond]
* (rfdate), (Henry Fielding) (1707-1754)
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
(formal) A residence, dwelling or habitation.
* (rfdate), (William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
(abide)
(obsolete) An omen; a foretelling.
* High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes . -
(senseid) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
(label) Adaptation or adjustment.
# The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
#* (rfdate), Sir (1609-1676)
# A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
#*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10
, passage=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.}}
# The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
# The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
(label) Adaptation or adjustment.
# Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
# Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
#* (rfdate), (1800-1859)
# (label) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
#* (rfdate), (William Paley) (1743-1805)
# A loan of money.
# An accommodation bill or note.
# An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
As nouns the difference between abode and accommodation
is that abode is (obsolete) act of waiting; delay or abode can be (obsolete) an omen; a foretelling while accommodation is (senseid) lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.As a verb abode
is (abide) or abode can be (obsolete) to bode; to foreshow; to presage .abode
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) abod, abad, from (etyl) . For the change of vowel, compare ''abode'', preterit of ''abide .Noun
(en noun)- Vpon his Courser set the louely lode, / And with her fled away without abode .
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
- He waxeth at your abode here.
- of no fixed abode .
- Come, let me lead you to our poore abode .
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(head)Etymology 2
* From an alteration with bode and (etyl) *Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* abodement * abodingSee also
* dwellingReferences
accommodation
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(Webster 1913)Noun
- The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.
- To come to terms of accommodation .
- Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations .