All 5 Uses of
accommodate
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- The viceregal houseparty which included many wellknown ladies was chaperoned by Their Excellencies to the most favourable positions on the grandstand while the picturesque foreign delegation known as the Friends of the Emerald Isle was accommodated on a tribune directly opposite.†
Chpt 12
- She loathed that sort of person, the fallen women off the accommodation walk beside the Dodder that went with the soldiers and coarse men with no respect for a girl's honour, degrading the sex and being taken up to the police station.†
Chpt 13
- Lastly at the head of the board was the young poet who found a refuge from his labours of pedagogy and metaphysical inquisition in the convivial atmosphere of Socratic discussion, while to right and left of him were accommodated the flippant prognosticator, fresh from the hippodrome, and that vigilant wanderer, soiled by the dust of travel and combat and stained by the mire of an indelible dishonour, but from whose steadfast and constant heart no lure or peril or threat or degradation…†
Chpt 14
- Because of course uptodate tourist travelling was as yet merely in its infancy, so to speak, and the accommodation left much to be desired.
Chpt 16 *accommodation = provision (of things needed)
- Seeing they were all looking at his chest he accommodatingly dragged his shirt more open so that on top of the timehonoured symbol of the mariner's hope and rest they had a full view of the figure 16 and a young man's sideface looking frowningly rather.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(accommodate as in: the room can accommodate four) provide (or have the ability to provide) for something desired or needed