All 11 Uses of
accommodate
in
Jane Eyre
- The red-room was a square chamber, very seldom slept in, I might say never, indeed, unless when a chance influx of visitors at Gateshead Hall rendered it necessary to turn to account all the accommodation it contained: yet it was one of the largest and stateliest chambers in the mansion.
Chpt 2 (definition 1) *accommodation = space
- Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties; and it has been observed in every arrangement connected with the establishment of Lowood: plain fare, simple attire, unsophisticated accommodations, hardy and active habits; such is the order of the day in the house and its inhabitants.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- The stone was just broad enough to accommodate, comfortably, another girl and me, at that time my chosen comrade — one Mary Ann Wilson; a shrewd, observant personage, whose society I took pleasure in, partly because she was witty and original, and partly because she had a manner which set me at my ease.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- The unhealthy nature of the site; the quantity and quality of the children's food; the brackish, fetid water used in its preparation; the pupils' wretched clothing and accommodations — all these things were discovered, and the discovery produced a result mortifying to Mr. Brocklehurst, but beneficial to the institution.†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- Reader, though I look comfortably accommodated, I am not very tranquil in my mind.†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- I must be served at the fireside, she said; and she placed before me a little round stand with my cup and a plate of toast, absolutely as she used to accommodate me with some privately purloined dainty on a nursery chair: and I smiled and obeyed her as in bygone days.†
Chpt 21 (definition 2)
- But perhaps your accommodations — your cottage — your furniture — have disappointed your expectations?†
Chpt 31 (definition 2)
- As his curate, his comrade, all would be right: I would cross oceans with him in that capacity; toil under Eastern suns, in Asian deserts with him in that office; admire and emulate his courage and devotion and vigour; accommodate quietly to his masterhood; smile undisturbed at his ineradicable ambition; discriminate the Christian from the man: profoundly esteem the one, and freely forgive the other.†
Chpt 34 (definition 2)
- I entered — not now obliged to part with my whole fortune as the price of its accommodation.
Chpt 36 (definition 2) *accommodation = provision
- Ferndean then remained uninhabited and unfurnished, with the exception of some two or three rooms fitted up for the accommodation of the squire when he went there in the season to shoot.
Chpt 37 (definition 1)accommodation = lodging
- I asked John to go down to the turn-pike-house, where I had dismissed the chaise, and bring my trunk, which I had left there: and then, while I removed my bonnet and shawl, I questioned Mary as to whether I could be accommodated at the Manor House for the night; and finding that arrangements to that effect, though difficult, would not be impossible, I informed her I should stay.†
Chpt 37 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (accommodations as in: hotel accommodations) space, lodgings, or other needs -- such as a hotel room and services
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(2) (accommodate as in: the room can accommodate four) provide (or have the ability to provide) for something desired or needed