accord

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English

WOTD – 2 August 2008

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /əˈkɔːd/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ə.ˈkɔɹd/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d

Noun

accord (countable and uncountable, plural accords)

  1. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
  2. A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
    • 17th century, Sir John Davies, The Self-Subsistence of the Soul:
      Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
  3. Agreement or harmony of things in general.
    the accord of light and shade in painting
  4. (law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Blackstone to this entry?)
  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.
    Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord.
    • Bible, Leviticus xxv. 5
      That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap.

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Verb

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.
  2. (transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      But Satyrane forth stepping, did them stay / And with faire treatie pacifide their ire, / Then when they were accorded from the fray […]
    • (Can we date this quote?), Robert South, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      all which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult, can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning
  3. (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
  4. (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
  5. (transitive, 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.
    • 2010 December 16, European Court of Human Rights, A, B and C v. Ireland‎[1], number 25579/05, marginal 235:
      In the present case, and contrary to the Government’s submission, the Court considers that there is indeed a consensus amongst a substantial majority of the Contracting States of the Council of Europe towards allowing abortion on broader grounds than accorded under Irish law.
  6. (intransitive, obsolete) To give consent.
  7. (intransitive, archaic) To arrive at an agreement.

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French

Etymology

Deverbal from accorder. Compare with Catalan acord.

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Noun

accord m (plural accords)

  1. chord
  2. agreement
  3. permission, consent

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Noun

accord m (plural accords)

  1. (Jersey) agreement
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