discord

Meanings

Noun

• Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.
• Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
• An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
• Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.

Verb

• To disagree; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
• To untie things which are connected by a cord.

Origin

• Circa 1230, Middle English descorde, discorde; from Anglo-Norman, Old French descort (derivative of descorder), descorde; from Latin discordia, from discors, from dis- + cor.
• Verb derives from Middle English discorden, from Anglo-Norman, Old French descorder, from Latin discordāre, from discord-, as above.