accord
pronunciation
How to pronounce accord in British English:
UK [əˈkɔːd]
How to pronounce accord in American English:
US [ əˈkɔːrd]
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- Noun:
- harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters
- concurrence of opinion
- a written agreement between two states or sovereigns
- sympathetic compatibility
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- Verb:
- go together
- allow to have
Word Origin
- accord
- accord: [12] In its original source, Vulgar Latin *accordāre, accord meant literally ‘heart-toheart’ (from Latin ad ‘to’ and cord-, the stem of cor ‘heart’). It passed into Old French as acorder, and was borrowed comparatively early into English, turning up in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1123. Its general sense of ‘being in agreement’ has been narrowed down in English and other languages to the notion of ‘being in harmony musically’, and either Italian accordare or French accorder provided the basis for German akkordion (from which English got accordion), the musical instrument invented by Buschmann in Berlin in 1822.=> cordial
- accord (v.)
- early 12c., from Old French acorder (12c.) "reconcile, agree, be in harmony," from Vulgar Latin *accordare "make agree," literally "be of one heart, bring heart to heart," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + cor (genitive cordis) "heart," from PIE root *kerd- (1) "heart" (see heart (n.)). Related: Accorded; according.
- accord (n.)
- late 13c., accourd, from Old French acord "agreement," a back-formation from acorder (see accord (v.)).
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Example
- 1. Meanwhile the terms of the new accord are vague .
- 2. But the accord has sparked no new thinking .
- 3. He walked out of his own accord .
- 4. The risk is that the short-term response will damage that accord .
- 5. This accord now looks in jeopardy .