English

Noun

accord ‎(plural accords)

1. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
   • 1769, The King James Bible - Oxford Standard Text, Acts 1:14

     These all continued with one accord in prayer.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Francis Bacon, (Please provide the title of the work):

     a mediator of an accord and peace between them

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.

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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.

Synonyms

• (concurrence of opinion): consent, assent
• (international agreement): treaty

Derived terms

• of its own accord, of one's own accord
• with one accord

Related terms

• chord

Translations

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.
   • 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, page 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 […]

   • (Can we date this quote?), Robert South, (Please provide the title of the work):

     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.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth, III-i:

     For things are often spoke and seldom meant; / But that my heart accordeth with my tongue,—

   • 1671, John Milton, Paradise Regained, Book III:

     [T]hy actions to thy words accord;

   • 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterII:

     Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

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.

Translations

Derived terms

French

Etymology

Derived from the verb accorder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kɔʁ/

Noun

accord m ‎(plural accords)

1. chord
2. agreement

Derived terms

• accorder
• d'accord
• désaccord

Anagrams

• cocard

Norman

Noun

accord m ‎(plural accords)

1. (Jersey) agreement