meaning of accord
1. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
2. Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.
3. Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.
4. Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of ones own accord.
5. An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.
6. To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to.
7. To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.
8. To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise.
9. To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.
10. To agree in pitch and tone.
11. sympathetic compatibility
Related Words
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