accord

• First attested in the late 13th century.
• From Middle English acorden, borrowed from Old French acorder (compare modern French accord and accorder), from Vulgar Latin *accordō, accordāre (“to be heart to heart with”), formed from Latin ad + cor (“heart”).
• The verb is first attested in early 12th century.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈkɔːd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ə.ˈkɔɹd/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d

accord (countable and uncountable, 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 book title or journal name):

     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.

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

• of one's own accord
• with one accord

• chord

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 Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, 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 book title or journal name):

     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; to be concordant.
   • 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, “Book the Third”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, lines 9–11, page 54:

     Thy actions to thy words accord, thy words / To thy large heart give utterance due, thy heart / Conteins of good, wiſe, juſt, the perfect ſhape.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0147:

     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, 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.

   • 2010 December 16, European Court of Human Rights, A, B and C v. Ireland‎, number 25579/05, marginal 235:

     In the present case, and contrary to the Government’s submission, the Court considers that there is indeed a consensus amongst a substantial majority of the Contracting States of the Council of Europe towards allowing abortion on broader grounds than accorded under Irish law.

6. (intransitive, obsolete) To give consent.
7. (intransitive, archaic) To arrive at an agreement.

Deverbal of accorder.

• IPA^(key): /a.kɔʁ/

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accord m (plural accords)

1. chord
2. agreement
3. permission, consent

• accorder
• d'accord
• désaccord

• “accord” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• cocard

accord m (plural accords)

1. (Jersey) agreement