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accord¹
- /əˈkɔːd/ UK
- /əˈkɔɹd/ US
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)d
Where it comes from
From Middle English accord, from Old French acort, from acorder (see verb below).
noun accords
- Agreement of opinion, will, or action. These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Iesus, and with his brethen.
- Agreement in pitch and tone; harmony, musical concord. Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
- Agreement or harmony of things in general. the accord of light and shade in painting
- A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof. Oriental fragrances often incorporate an accord referred to as amber. It is a perfumery accord using vanilla, olibanum, balsamic resins, and citrus to varying degrees.
- An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit. Accord is a satisfaction agreed upon between the party injuring and the party injured ; which , when performed , is a bar of all actions upon this account
- An international agreement. The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.
- Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act. Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord.
accord²
- /əˈkɔːd/ UK
- /əˈkɔɹd/ US
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)d
Where it comes from
From Middle English accorden, acorden, borrowed from Old French acorder (compare modern French accord and accorder), from Vulgar Latin *accordāre, from Latin concordāre via prefix substitution (with Latin ad-), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr ~ *ḱr̥d-, and thus distantly related to English heart (via Proto-Germanic *hertô).
verb accords · according · accorded
- To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust. [H]er hands accorded the Lutes muſicke to the voice; […]
- To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize. But Satyrane forth ſtepping, did them ſtay / And with faire treaty pacifide their yre; / Then when they were accorded from the fray, […]
- To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant. For things are often ſpoke, and ſeldome meant, / But that my heart accordeth with my tongue, […]
- To agree in pitch and tone.
- To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations will be the acid test of their good will.
- To give consent.
- To arrive at an agreement.
