From Middle English accord, from Old French acort, from acorder (see verb below).
Meanings
(countable, uncountable) Agreement of opinion, will, or action.
These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Iesus, and with his brethen. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 1:14:
a mediator of an accord and peace between them 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
(countable, uncountable) Agreement in pitch and tone; harmony, musical concord.
Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays. 17th century, Sir John Davies, The Self-Subsistence of the Soul:
In a languid and mysterious chant Sister Clara raised her voice, and her acolytes kept accord on their mandolines […]. 1917, Aleister Crowley, Moonchild, Weiser, published 2010, page 146:
(countable, uncountable) Agreement or harmony of things in general.
the accord of light and shade in painting
(countable, qualifier:perfumery) A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof.
Fougères are built on an accord between lavender and coumarin, with every conceivable variation and elaboration. 2010, Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez, Perfumes: The A–Z Guide, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 22:
Oriental fragrances often incorporate an accord referred to as amber. It is a perfumery accord using vanilla, olibanum, balsamic resins, and citrus to varying degrees. 2010, Daphna Havkin-Frenkel, Faith C. Belanger, Handbook of Vanilla Science and Technology, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
Accord is the perfumer's word for a perfume formulation that can be incorporated into any perfume calling for a particular note. 2016, Valerie Ann Worwood, The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy […] , New World Library, →ISBN, page 450:
(countable, uncountable) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
Accord is a satisfaction agreed upon between the party injuring and the party injured ; which , when performed , is a bar of all actions upon this account 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
(countable, qualifier:international law, uncountable) An international agreement.
The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.
(countable, uncountable) Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord.
That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 25:5:
treaty (international agreement) · assent (concurrence of opinion) · consent (concurrence of opinion)
Translations (66)
cs souhlas (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · ko 협정 (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · de Einklang (agreement, harmony, or just correspondence) · eo akordo (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · de Akkord (harmony of sounds) · es iniciativa propia (voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act) · bg съгла́сие (agreement, harmony, or just correspondence) · pl akord (harmony of sounds) · bn সামঞ্জস্য (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · ru гармо́ния (harmony of sounds) · ru акко́рд (harmony of sounds) · es convenio (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · ro acord (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · de Harmonie (agreement, harmony, or just correspondence) · fi sopusointu (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · bg съгла́сие (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · be пагадне́нне (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · ko 일치 (harmony of sounds) · fi harmonia (harmony of sounds) · de Einvernehmen (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · de Übereinkommen (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · bg ако́рд (harmony of sounds) · ru гармо́ния (agreement, harmony, or just correspondence) · uk зго́да (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · ja 合意 (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · de Übereinstimmung (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · hi समझौता (harmony of sounds) · ru согла́сие (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · de Übereinstimmung (agreement, harmony, or just correspondence) · bg хармо́ния (harmony of sounds) · pl porozumienie (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · id kesepakatan (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · de Abstimmung (agreement, harmony, or just correspondence) · uk гармо́нія (harmony of sounds) · pt acordo (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · be гармо́нія (harmony of sounds) · nl akkoord (harmony of sounds) · es voluntad propia (voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act) · bg хармо́ния (agreement, harmony, or just correspondence) · et kokkulepe (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · hi समझौता (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · hi समझौता (agreement, harmony, or just correspondence) · kix thòlòuh-îe (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · aig abaata (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · mk согласност (agreement, harmony, or just correspondence) · es acuerdo (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · ro înțelegere (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · it accordo (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · fr entente (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · mk слога (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · de Übereinkunft (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · be ако́рд (harmony of sounds) · bg мир (agreement, harmony, or just correspondence) · id persetujuan (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · uk ако́рд (harmony of sounds) · am ስምምነት (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · ar تَفَاهُم (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · bn সামঞ্জস্য (agreement, harmony, or just correspondence) · uk гармо́нія (agreement, harmony, or just correspondence) · he הֶסְכֵּם (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · mk сложност (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · ia accordo (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · ceb panaghiuyon (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · io akordo (agreement or concurrence of opinion) · ru согла́сие (agreement, harmony, or just correspondence) · bn সামঞ্জস্য (harmony of sounds)
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).
Meanings
(transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
[H]er hands accorded the Lutes muſicke to the voice; […] a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “[The Second Booke] Chapter 11”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC, folio 150, recto:
(transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
All which Particulars (with many more of the like Nature) being confeſſedly knotty and difficult, can never be accorded, but by a competent Stock of critical Learning; […] 1660 August 7 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar); first published 1715, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at St. Mary’s Church in Oxon, before the University, […]”, in Twelve Sermons Preached at Several Times, and upon Several Occasions, volume IV, London: […] G. James, for Jonah Bowyer […], →OCLC, pages 17–18:
But Satyrane forth ſtepping, did them ſtay / And with faire treaty pacifide their yre; / Then when they were accorded from the fray, […] 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 532:
(intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
For things are often ſpoke, and ſeldome meant, / But that my heart accordeth with my tongue, […] 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 132, column 2:
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. 1671, John Milton, “The Third Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 54, lines 9–11:
Let knowledge grow from more to more, / But more of reverence in us dwell; / That mind and soul, according well, / May make one music as before, / But vaster. 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Prologue”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page vi:
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. 1910, Emerson Hough, “The Gateway, and Some Who Passed”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 29:
(intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
(transitive) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations will be the acid test of their good will.
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. 2010 December 16, European Court of Human Rights, A, B and C v. Ireland, number 25579/05, marginal 235:
And, when the blinding tears had fallen, I saw
That column, and those corpses, and the moon,
And felt the poisonous tooth of hunger gnaw
My vitals, I rejoiced, as if the boon
Of senseless death would be accorded soon;— […] 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 217:
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. 1951, United Nations, Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, article 14:
Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly their due. 1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the "T14s"”, in Railway Magazine, page 57:
(intransitive, obsolete) To give consent.
(archaic, intransitive) To arrive at an agreement.
fi olla yhtä mieltä (intransitive: to agree or correspond; to be in harmony) · fi mukauttaa (transitive: to make to agree or correspond) · de in Einklang bringen (transitive: to bring to an agreement) · de zugestehen (transitive: to grant) · ru соотве́тствовать (intransitive: to agree or correspond; to be in harmony) · de übereinstimmen (intransitive: to agree or correspond; to be in harmony) · uk надава́ти (transitive: to grant) · es acordar (transitive: to grant) · ru согласо́вываться (intransitive: to agree or correspond; to be in harmony) · bg съгласувам (transitive: to make to agree or correspond) · de in Übereinstimmung bringen (transitive: to make to agree or correspond) · es alcordar (transitive: to bring to an agreement) · de versöhnen (transitive: to bring to an agreement) · de bewilligen (transitive: to grant) · pl zgodzić się (transitive: to make to agree or correspond) · es alcordar (transitive: to make to agree or correspond) · de ausgleichen (transitive: to bring to an agreement) · de gewähren (transitive: to grant) · de harmonieren (intransitive: to agree or correspond; to be in harmony) · es concordar con (transitive: to make to agree or correspond) · de annähern (transitive: to bring to an agreement) · ru ока́зывать (transitive: to grant) · es acordar (intransitive: to agree or correspond; to be in harmony) · ru жа́ловать (transitive: to grant) · es acordar (transitive: to bring to an agreement) · de bieten (transitive: to grant) · de einstellen (transitive: to make to agree or correspond) · ru гармони́ровать (intransitive: to agree or correspond; to be in harmony) · fi myöntää (transitive: to grant) · de harmonisieren (transitive: to bring to an agreement) · de decken (intransitive: to agree or correspond; to be in harmony) · de erteilen (transitive: to grant) · es acordar (transitive: to make to agree or correspond) · de zustimmen (intransitive: to agree or correspond; to be in harmony) · de in Einklang stehen (intransitive: to agree or correspond; to be in harmony) · bg предлагам помощ (transitive: to grant) · de anpassen (transitive: to make to agree or correspond) · ru предоставля́ть (transitive: to grant) · et andma (transitive: to grant) · fr accorder (transitive: to grant)