Dictionary Definition
accord
Noun
1 harmony of people's opinions or actions or
characters; "the two parties were in agreement" [syn: agreement] [ant: disagreement]
2 concurrence of opinion; "we are in accord with
your proposal" [syn: conformity, accordance]
4 sympathetic compatibility [syn: rapport]
Verb
1 go together; "The colors don't harmonize";
"Their ideas concorded" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, consort, concord, fit in, agree]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From acord, accord, acorden, accorden, through acort, acorde, and acorder, confer French accord and accorder, and in turn from accordare; ad + cor, cordis, heart. Confer concord, discord, and see heart.Pronunciation
- Rhymes with: -ɔː(r)d
Noun
- Agreement or concurrence of opinion,
will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
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- A mediator of an accord and peace between them. - Bacon.
- These all continued with one accord in prayer. - Acts 1:14
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- Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord
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- Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays. - Sir J. Davies.
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- Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.
- Voluntary or spontaneous motion or
impulse to act; --
preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.
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- That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap. - Leviticus xxv. 5
- Of his own accord he went unto you. - 2 Corinthians 7:17
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- An agreement between parties in controversy, by which
satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when
executed, bars a suit.
- Blackstone.
- Derived phrase
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- With one accord, with unanimity.
- They rushed with one accord into the theater. - Acts 19:29''
Translations
agreement or concurrence of opinion
- Cebuano: panaghiuyon
- French: entente
- German: Übereinstimmung
- Hebrew: הסכם (heskem)
- Ido: akordo
- Indonesian: kesepakatan, persetujuan
- Interlingua: accordo
- Italian: accordo
- Japanese: 合意 (ごうい, gōi)
- Portuguese: acordo
- Spanish: acuerdo
harmony of sounds
agreement, harmony, or just correspondence
voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to
act
an agreement
Verb
- To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing
to another; to adjust; -- followed by to.
- Quotations
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- Her hands accorded the lute's music to the voice. - Sidney.
- To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.
- To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due
praise.
- Quotations
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- According his desire. - Spenser.
- To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony;
-- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition
accords with his looks.
- Quotations
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- My heart accordeth with my tongue. - Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI, III-i
- Thy actions to thy words accord. - Milton, Paradise regained
- To agree in pitch and tone.
Translations
transitive: to accord
- Spanish: acordar
transitive: to bring to an agreement
transitive: to grant
Derived terms
French
Pronunciation
- /a.kɔʁ/, /a.kOR/
Noun
fr-noun mExtensive Definition
Places
- Accord, New York, a hamlet in Ulster County, seat of the Town of Rochester
Peace agreements
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- Camp David Accords (1978) in the Egypt-Israel conflict
- Oslo Accords (1993), part of a peace process of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Geneva Accord (2003), an extra-governmental peace proposal in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Sierra Leone Civil War
- Abidjan Peace Accord (1996)
- Lomé Peace Accord (1999)
- Nkomati Accord (1984) between Mozambique and South Africa
- Bicesse Accords (1991) in the Angolan civil war
- Dakar Accord (2006) between Chad and Sudan
- Waziristan accord (2006) between the government of Pakistan and tribals resident in the Waziristan area
International economics agreements
- Plaza Accord (1985) to devalue the US dollar
- Louvre Accord (1987) to stabilise the international currency markets
- Basel Accords (1988/1996 and 2004) in banking
Political parties and groups of parties
- Coalition of People's Accord, a former political bloc in Croatia
- Iraqi National Accord, an Iraqi political party
- Iraqi Accord Front, an Iraqi political coalition
- Labor-Green Accord (1989–1992) in Tasmania, Australia
Miscellaneous agreements
- Kyoto Accord, the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- 1951 Accord in American politics
- The Accord (1980s) in Australian industrial relations
- Meech Lake Accord (1987) in Canadian constitutional development
- Charlottetown Accord (1992) in Canadian constitutional development
- Nouméa Accord (1998) in New Caledonian politics
International accreditation agreements
- Washington Accord (1989) for professional engineering degree programs
- Sydney Accord (2001) for engineering technologist qualifications.
Miscellaneous
- Accord Software and Systems, Bangalore, India
- Accord and satisfaction in contract law
- Honda Accord, a popular car by Honda Motor Company
- Accord Infrastructures, an apartment construction company in India
- Bon Accord FC
- Accord plc, a public services provider in South England.
accord in German: Accord
accord in French: Accord
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
OK, accede
to, accept, acceptance, acclamation, accommodate, accommodate
with, accommodation, accord to,
accordance, acquiescence, adapt, adapt to, adaptation, adaption, addition, adjunct, adjust, adjust to, adjustment, administer, admit, affairs, affiliation, affinity, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative
voice, afford, agree, agree in opinion, agree to,
agree with, agreement,
agreement of all, alliance, allot, allow, answer to, approbation, approval, approve, approve of, approximation, arrangement, assemblage, assent, assimilate, assimilate to,
associate, association, assonate, assort with, atone, attune, attunement, award, aye, bargain, be consistent, be
guided by, be harmonious, be in cahoots, be in tune, be of one, be
uniform with, be willing, bend, bestow, bestow on, binding
agreement, blend, blessing, bond, cartel, cessation of combat,
check, chime, chime in with, chiming, chord, chorus, close with, closeness, coact, coadunate, cohere, coherence, coincide, coincidence, collaborate, collective
agreement, collude,
combination,
combine, common assent,
common consent, communicate, compact, compatibility, compliance, comply, comply with, compose, concentus, concert, concord, concordance, concur, concurrence, condescend, confer, conform, conform to, conform
with, conformance,
conformation,
conformation other-direction, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, conjoin, connectedness, connection, connivance, connive, connive at, consensus, consensus gentium,
consensus of opinion, consensus omnium, consent, consent to silently,
consentaneity,
consist with, consistency, consonance, consonancy, consort, consortium, conspire, contiguity, contract, contrariety, convention, conventionality,
cooperate, cooperation, coordinate, correct, correspond, correspondence, cotton
to, covenant, covenant
of salt, cut to, deal, deal
out, dealings, deduction, deign, diapason, dicker, discipline, dish out,
disjunction,
dispense, ditto, dole, dole out, donate, dovetail, eagerness, echo, empathize, employment
contract, endorse,
endorsement,
equalize, equivalence, euphony, exemption from
hostilities, extend, fall
in together, fall in with, filiation, fit, fit together, fix, flexibility, follow, fork out, formal
agreement, freedom from war, gear to, general acclamation, general
agreement, general consent, general voice, get along, get along
with, get on with, gift,
gift with, give, give
consent, give freely, give leave, give out, give permission, give
the go-ahead, give the word, go along with, go by, go together, go
with, grant, hand out,
hang together, happen together, harmonics, harmonize, harmonize with,
harmony, have no
objection, heap, heavy
harmony, help to, hit, hold
together, hold with, homologate, homologize, homology, homophony, identify with,
impart, interchange, intercourse, interlock, intersect, intersection, intimacy, ironclad agreement,
issue, jibe, join, junction, keeping, key to, lavish, leave, legal agreement, legal
contract, let, let have,
liaison, liberty in
tranquillity, like-mindedness, line, link, linkage, linking, lock, make conform, make plumb,
make possible, make uniform, malleability, match, measure, meet, meeting of minds, melodize, mete, mete out, mold, monochord, monody, musicalize, mutual agreement,
mutual attraction, mutual understanding, nearness, nod, nod assent, not refuse,
obedience, observance, observe, offer, okay, one accord, one voice,
oneness, orthodoxy, overlap, pact, paction, parallel, parallelism, pax, peace, peacetime, permission, permit, pliancy, pour, present, proffer, promise, promptitude, promptness, propinquity, proportion, protocol, proximity, put in tune,
rain, rapport, ratification, ratify, readiness, reciprocate, reconcile, reconcilement, reconciliation, rectify, register, register with,
regulate, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, release, render, respond to, right, rub off corners, same mind,
sanction, say aye, say
the word, say yes, self-consistency, serve, set, set right, settle, shape, shell out, shower, side with, similarity, similarize, sing in chorus,
single voice, slip,
snow, sort with, sound in
tune, sound together, square, square with, stand
together, stipulation, straighten, strictness, strike in with,
submission, suit, symmetry, sympathize, sympathy, symphonize, symphony, sync, synchronism, synchronization,
synchronize,
synergize, tailor, take kindly to, tally, tally with, tender, three-part harmony,
tie, tie-in, timing, total agreement, traditionalism, transaction, treaty, trim to, true, true up, tune, unanimity, unanimousness, understand
one another, understanding, ungrudgingness, uniformity, union, union contract, unison, unisonance, unite, universal agreement,
unloathness,
unreluctance, valid
contract, vote affirmatively, vote aye, vouchsafe, wage contract,
willingness, wink
at, yield, yield
assent