according Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb go together
    accord; fit in; concord; consort; harmonise; harmonize; agree.
    • The colors don't harmonize
    • Their ideas concorded
  2. verb allow to have
    accord; allot; grant.
    • grant a privilege
  3. adjective satellite (followed by `to') in agreement with or accordant with
    • according to instructions
  4. adjective satellite (followed by `to') as reported or stated by
    • according to historians

WordNet


Ac*cord"ing participial adjective
Definitions
  1. Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. "This according voice of national wisdom." Burke. "Mind and soul according well." Tennyson.
    According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay.
    Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat.
    According to has been called a prepositional phrase, but strictly speaking, according is a participle in the sense of agreeing, acceding, and to alone is the preposition.
    Is all things well, According as I gave directions? Shak.
    The land which the Lord will give you according as he hath promised. Ex. xii. 25.
Ac*cord"ing adverb
Definitions
  1. Accordingly; correspondingly. Obs. Shak.

Webster 1913