accordance

English

Alternative forms

• accordaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

• (compliance): First attested around 1300.
• (agreement): First attested in the early 14th century.
• accord +‎ -ance
• From Middle English accordaunce, from Old French acordance (“agreeing, reconciliation, harmony”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈkɔː.dəns/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /əˈkoɹ.dəns/

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /əˈkoː.dəns/

Noun

accordance (countable and uncountable, plural accordances)

1. Agreement; harmony; conformity; compliance.
   • 1607, Francis Bacon, Phenomena of the Universe Or Natural History for the Building Up of Philosophy‎^[1], Preface:

     However, I do not think it appropriate to divide my history in accordance with this threefold partition, so as to deal with singular instances separately, but I shall mix the three kinds, joining things natural with artificial, ordinary with extraordinary, and paying very close attention to all the most useful ones.

   • 1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XV, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     And what had been done that was not in strict accordance with the law of Parliament?

   • 2012, Exit and Entry Administration Law of the People's Republic of China‎^[2], Chapter II (Exit and Entry of Chinese Citizens), Article 9:

     Chinese citizens who exit or enter China shall, in accordance with the law, apply for passports or other travel documents.

2. The act of granting something.

Synonyms

• harmony, unison, coincidence

Derived terms

• in accordance with
• unaccordance

Translations

agreement; harmony; conformity

• Afrikaans: ooreenstemming
• Bulgarian: съгласие (bg) (sǎglasie), съответствие (bg) (sǎotvetstvie)
• Dutch: overeenstemming (nl) f
• Estonian: vastavus
• Faroese: samsvar n
• Finnish: sopusointu (fi)
• French: accordance (fr) f
• German: Übereinstimmung (de) f
• Hungarian: egyetértés (hu), összhang (hu)
• Portuguese: acordo (pt) m
• Romanian: conformitate (ro) f
• Russian: соотве́тствие (ru) n (sootvétstvije), согла́сие (ru) n (soglásije)
• Spanish: acuerdo (es) m, conformidad (es) f, arreglo (es) m, acordanza (es) f
• Swedish: enlighet (sv) c, överensstämmelse (sv) c
• Turkish: uygunluk (tr), uyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: зго́да f (zhóda)