HOW TO PRONOUNCE
accommodate
/əˈkɑməˌdeɪt/
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Stress “com,” the second syllable.
Use four syllables and a light opening vowel. Keep the third vowel unstressed, then finish with the long a of day and t, giving that final beat only secondary stress.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The room can accommodate a small group.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does accommodate mean?
verb
- To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
- To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
- To provide housing for.
More meanings (9)
verb
- To provide sufficient space for.
- To contain comfortably; to have space for.
- To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
- 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.
- To give consideration to; to allow for.
- Of an eye, to change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.
- (rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
adjective
- (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈkɑməˌdeɪt/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
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Kantos Kan thought that the docks there, in addition to their regular work, would accommodate at least six battleships at a time.
All their arrangements had reference to the state of the Princess Daylight, and it is amazing how things contrive to accommodate themselves.
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I invited him to accommodate himself in one of Mrs. Lippett's electric-blue chairs, and then sat down opposite to enjoy the harmony.
The one exports what can subsist and accommodate but a very few, and imports the subsistence and accommodation of a great number.
The advocates and judges of our times find bias enough in all causes to accommodate them to what they themselves think fit.