accord

Meanings

Noun

• Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
• A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
• Agreement or harmony of things in general.
• An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
• An international agreement.
• Assent
• Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.

Verb

• To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
• To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
• To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
• To agree in pitch and tone.
• To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
• To give consent.
• To arrive at an agreement.

Related

Similar words

• consent, assent
• treaty

Origin

• From Middle English accorden, acorden, borrowed from Old French acorder (compare modern French accord and accorder), from Vulgar Latin *accordo ("to be heart to heart with"), formed from Latin ad + cor.