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English

Etymology

From French accommodation from Latin accommod?ti? (“adjustment, accommodation, compliance”), from accommod? (“adapt, put in order”). Superficially accommodate +? -ion. The sense of "lodging" was first attested in 1600.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?.?k?m.?.?de?.??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?.?k?m.?.?de?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

accommodation (countable and uncountable, plural 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.

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.
   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, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, ?OCLC, page 121:

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

   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.

Derived terms

The definitions should be entered into dedicated entries for the terms defined.

• accommodation bill, or note, (Commerce): a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit
• accommodation coach, or train: one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations
• accommodation ladder, (Nautical): a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats
• holiday accommodation

Translations

Further reading

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

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin accommod?ti?, accommod?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.k?.m?.da.sj??/

Noun

accommodation f (plural accommodations)

1. accommodation

Further reading

• “accommodation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Scots

Noun

accommodation (plural accommodations)

1. accommodation

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

English

Etymology

From Latin syncretismus, from Ancient Greek ???????????? (sunkr?tismós, “federation of Cretan cities”), from ?????????? (sunkr?tíz?, “to unite against a common enemy”), from ??? (sún, “together”) (see English syn-) + ?????? (Krêtes, “Cretans”). Surface analysis is syn- +? Crete +? -ism ("Crete joining together").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??k???t?sm/

Noun

syncretism (countable and uncountable, plural syncretisms)

1. (religion) The (attempted) reconciliation or fusion of different systems or beliefs.
   • 1995, Clinton E. Arnold, The Colossian Syncretism: The Interface Between Christianity and Folk Belief at Colossae, J.C.B. Mohr (Paul SieBeck), page 238,

     It provides a more natural explanation of the Colossian syncretism as stemming from local religious impulses that continued to wield a powerful draw on people converted to Christianity from the local Jewish communities and pagan cults. […] The kind of syncretism we find at Colossae was not unique to that city or region.

   • 2006, Gailyn Van Rheenen, 1: Syncretism and Contextualization: The Church on a Journey Defining Itself, Gailyn Van Rheenen (editor), Contextualization and Syncretism: Navigating Cultural Currents, Evangelical Missiological Society, page 7,

     Kraft's functional view of Anthropology eventually leads to syncretism because God is understood as working within a modern, humanistic paradigm.

   • 2010, Marguerite Fernández Olmos, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Creole Religions of the Caribbean, Claudio Iván Remeseira (editor), Hispanic New York: A Sourcebook, Columbia University Press, page 222,

     The strategies of religious syncretism—the active transformation through renegotiation, reorganization, and redefinition of clashing belief systems—are consistent with the creolization process.

2. (linguistics) The fusion of different inflexional forms.
   • 1993, Robert Coleman, Patterns of Syncretism in Indo-European, Henk Aertsen, Robert J. Jeffers (editors), Historical Linguistics 1989: Papers from the 9th International Conference, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 111,

     In this paper a distinction is assumed between full syncretism, which affects whole morphemes, and partial syncretism, which affects only some case allomorphs, and also between syncretism proper and mere loss of a case morpheme.

   • 2004, Ronald F. Feldstein, On the Structure of Syncretism in Romanian Conjugation, Julie Auger, J. Clancy Clements, Barbara Vance (editors) Contemporary Approaches to Romance Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 177,

     Romanian conjugation displays several cases of syncretism, in which two paradigmatic slots share the same grammatical desinence. […] On the other hand, the syncretisms of the imperfect and subjunctive are not phonologically conditioned and, as such, apply to every verb without exception.

   • 2005, Michael Cysouw, Chapter 3: Syncretisms involving clusivity, Elena Filimonova (editor) Clusivity: Typology and Case Studies of Inclusive-exclusive Distinction, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 73,

     In this chapter, I will investigate whether they deserve this name by looking at syncretisms between clusivity and other person markers.

Related terms

• syncretic
• syncretize
• eclectic

Translations

Further reading

• Moral syncretism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Religious syncretism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Syncretism (linguistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Syncretism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Syncretism on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons