agree
pronunciation
How to pronounce agree in British English:
UK [əˈɡriː]
How to pronounce agree in American English:
US [əˈɡriː]
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- Verb:
- be in accord; be in agreement
- consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
- go together
- show grammatical agreement
- be agreeable or suitable
- achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose
Word Origin
- agree
- agree: [14] Originally, if a thing ‘agreed you’, it was to your liking, it pleased you. This early meaning survives in the adjective agreeable [14], but the verb has meanwhile moved on via ‘to reconcile (people who have quarrelled)’ and ‘to come into accord’ to its commonest presentday sense, ‘to concur’. It comes from Old French agréer ‘to please’, which was based on the phrase a gré ‘to one’s liking’. Gré was descended from Latin grātum, a noun based on grātus ‘pleasing’, from which English also gets grace and grateful.=> congratulate, grace, grateful, gratitude
- agree (v.)
- late 14c., "to be to one's liking;" also "to give consent," from Old French agreer "to receive with favor, take pleasure in" (12c.), from phrase a gré "favorably, of good will," literally "to (one's) liking," from Latin ad "to" (see ad-) + gratum "pleasing," neuter of gratus (see grace (n.)); the original sense survives best in agreeable. Meaning "to be in harmony in opinions" is from late 15c. Related: Agreed; agreeing.
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Example
- 1. I agree to go with him .
- 2. Many leading wall street figures agree .
- 3. It is a bizarre economic theory , I agree .
- 4. Most scientists agree on the causes of obesity .
- 5. But he says the north must still agree to a verification process .