accord
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From Middle English acord, accord, acorden, accorden, through Old French acort, acorde, and acorder (compare modern French accord and accorder), and in turn from Late Latin accordō, formed from Latin ad + cordis (“heart”).
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accord (plural accords)
- Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
- 1769, The King James Bible - Oxford Standard Text, Acts 1:14
- These all continued with one accord in prayer.
- 1769, The King James Bible - Oxford Standard Text, Acts 1:14
- A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
- 17th century, "The Self-Subsistence of the Soul", Sir John Davies,
- Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
- 17th century, "The Self-Subsistence of the Soul", Sir John Davies,
- Agreement or harmony of things in general.
- (law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
- (international law) An international agreement.
- The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.
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agreement or concurrence of opinion
harmony of sounds
agreement, harmony, or just correspondence
an agreement
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accord (third-person singular simple present accords, present participle according, simple past and past participle accorded)
- (transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
- 1590, Philip Sidney, Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, p. 150:
- [H]er hands accorded the Lutes musicke to the voice;
- 1590, Philip Sidney, Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, p. 150:
- (transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book III:
- But Satyrane forth stepping, did them stay // And with faire treatie pacifide their ire, // Then when they were accorded from the fray [...]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book III:
- (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth, III-i:
- For things are often spoke and seldom meant; // But that my heart accordeth with my tongue,—
- 1671, John Milton, Paradise Regained, Book III:
- [T]hy actions to thy words accord;
- 1593, William Shakespeare, The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth, III-i:
- (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
- (transitive) (dated or law) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
- 1951, United Nations' Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, article 14:
- In respect of the protection of industrial property, [...] a refugee shall be accorded in the country in which he has his habitual residence the same protection as is accorded to nationals of that country.
- 1951, United Nations' Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, article 14:
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transitive: to accord
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transitive: to bring to an agreement
transitive: to grant
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accord m. (plural accords)
