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accord.

Agreement of opinion, will, or action.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/əˈkɔːd/UK/əˈkɔɹd/US
  1. Agreement of opinion, will, or action.

    countable · uncountable
  2. Agreement in pitch and tone; harmony, musical concord.

    countable · uncountable
  3. Agreement or harmony of things in general.

    countable · uncountable
    the accord of light and shade in painting
  4. A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof.

    countable
  5. An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.

    countable · uncountable
  6. An international agreement.

    countable · uncountable
    The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.
  7. Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.

    countable · uncountable
    Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord.
Where this word comes from

From Middle English accord, from Old French acort, from acorder (see verb below).

verb/əˈkɔːd/UK/əˈkɔɹd/US
  1. To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.

    transitive
  2. To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.

    transitive
  3. To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.

    intransitive
  4. To agree in pitch and tone.

    intransitive
  5. To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.

    transitive
    The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations will be the acid test of their good will.
  6. To give consent.

    intransitive · obsolete
  7. To arrive at an agreement.

    archaic · intransitive
Where this word 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).

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