accord Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters
    agreement.
    • the two parties were in agreement
  2. noun concurrence of opinion
    conformity; accordance.
    • we are in accord with your proposal
  3. noun a written agreement between two states or sovereigns
    pact; treaty.
  4. noun sympathetic compatibility
  5. verb go together
    fit in; concord; consort; harmonise; harmonize; agree.
    • The colors don't harmonize
    • Their ideas concorded
  6. verb allow to have
    allot; grant.
    • grant a privilege

WordNet

Ac*cord" noun
Etymology
OE. acord, accord, OF. acort, acorde, F. accord, fr. OF. acorder, F. accorder. See Accord, v. t.
Definitions
  1. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
    A mediator of an accord and peace between them. Bacon.
    These all continued with one accord in prayer. Acts i. 14.
  2. Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.
    Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays. Sir J. Davies.
  3. Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.
  4. Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.
    That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap. Lev. xxv. 5.
    Of his own accord he went unto you. 2 Cor. vii. 17.
  5. (Law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit. Blackstone.
    They rushed with one accord into the theater. Acts xix. 29.
Ac*cord" transitive verb
Etymology
OE. acorden, accorden, OF. acorder, F. accorder, fr. LL. accordare; L. ad + cor, cordis, heart. Cf. Concord, Discord, and see Heart.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Accorded; present participle & verbal noun According
Definitions
  1. To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to. R.
    Her hands accorded the lute's music to the voice. Sidney.
  2. To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.
    When they were accorded from the fray. Spenser.
    All which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning. South.
  3. To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise. "According his desire." Spenser.
Ac*cord" intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.
    My heart accordeth with my tongue. Shak.
    Thy actions to thy words accord. Milton.
  2. To agree in pitch and tone.

Webster 1913