accord

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  • First attested in the late 13th century.
  • From Middle English acorden, from Old French acorder (compare modern French accord and accorder), from Vulgar Latin accordō (to be heart to heart with), formed from Latin ad + cord (heart).
  • The verb is first attested in early 12th century.

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accord (plural accords)

  1. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
  2. 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.
  3. Agreement or harmony of things in general.
  4. (law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
  5. (international law) An international agreement.
    The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.
  6. (obsolete) Assent
  7. Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.

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accord (third-person singular simple present accords, present participle according, simple past and past participle accorded)

  1. (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;
  2. (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 [...]
  3. (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony.
  4. (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
  5. (transitive, dated, 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.
  6. (intransitive, obsolete) To give consent.
  7. (intransitive, archaic) To arrive at an agreement.
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accord m (plural accords)

  1. chord
  2. agreement

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accord m (plural accords)

  1. agreement