# accord
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /əˈkɔːd/
* (US) IPA: /əˈkɔɹd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d

### Etymology 1

From Middle English accord, from Old French acort, from acorder (see verb below).

#### Noun

accord (countable and uncountable, plural accords)
* Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 1:14:These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Iesus, and with his brethen.
** 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:a mediator of an accord and peace between them
* A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
** 17th century, Sir John Davies, The Self-Subsistence of the Soul:Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
* Agreement or harmony of things in general.
    the accord of light and shade in painting
* (countable, perfumery) A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof.
** 2010 November 18, Daphna Havkin-Frenkel, Faith C. Belanger, Handbook of Vanilla Science and Technology, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:Oriental fragrances often incorporate an accord referred to as amber. It is a perfumery accord using vanilla, olibanum, balsamic resins, and citrus to varying degrees.
** 2016 October 15, Valerie Ann Worwood, The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy, Revised and Expanded: Over 800 Natural, Nontoxic, and Fragrant Recipes to Create Health, Beauty, and Safe Home and Work Environments, New World Library, →ISBN, page 450:Accord is the perfumer's word for a perfume formulation that can be incorporated into any perfume calling for a particular note.
* (law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
** 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:Accord is a satisfaction agreed upon between the party injuring and the party injured ; which , when performed , is a bar of all actions upon this account
* (international law) An international agreement.
    The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.
* Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
    Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 25:5:That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap.

##### Synonyms

* (concurrence of opinion): consent, assent
* (international agreement): treaty

##### Derived terms

* in accord
* of one's own accord
* with one accord

##### Related terms

* bon-accord
* chord

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English accorden, acorden, borrowed from Old French acorder (compare modern French accord and accorder), from Vulgar Latin *accordāre, from Latin concordāre via suffix substitution (with Latin ad-), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr ~ *ḱr̥d-, and thus distantly related to English heart (via Proto-Germanic *hertô).

#### Verb

accord (third-person singular simple present accords, present participle according, simple past and past participle accorded)
* (transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
** a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “[The Second Booke] Chapter 11”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC, folio 150, recto:[H]er hands accorded the Lutes muſicke to the voice; […]
* (transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 532:But Satyrane forth ſtepping, did them ſtay / And with faire treaty pacifide their yre; / Then when they were accorded from the fray, […]
** 1660 August 8 (Gregorian calendar); first published 1715, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at St. Mary’s Church in Oxon, before the University, […]”, in Twelve Sermons Preached at Several Times, and upon Several Occasions, volume IV, London: […] G. James, for Jonah Bowyer […], →OCLC, pages 17–18:All which Particulars (with many more of the like Nature) being confeſſedly knotty and difficult, can never be accorded, but by a competent Stock of critical Learning; […]
* (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
** 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 132, column 2:For things are often ſpoke, and ſeldome meant, / But that my heart accordeth with my tongue, […]
** 1671, John Milton, “The Third Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 54, lines 9–11:Thy actions to thy words accord, thy words / To thy large heart give utterance due, thy heart / Conteins of good, wiſe, juſt, the perfect ſhape.
** 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Prologue, page vi:Let knowledge grow from more to more, / ⁠But more of reverence in us dwell; / ⁠That mind and soul, according well, / May make one music as before, / But vaster.
** 1910, Emerson Hough, “The Gateway, and Some Who Passed”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 29:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
* (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
* (transitive, law) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
** 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 217:And, when the blinding tears had fallen, I saw That column, and those corpses, and the moon, And felt the poisonous tooth of hunger gnaw My vitals, I rejoiced, as if the boon Of senseless death would be accorded soon;— […]
** 1951, United Nations, Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, article 14:In respect of the protection of industrial property, […] a refugee shall be accorded in the country in which he has his habitual residence the same protection as is accorded to nationals of that country.
** 1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the "T14s"”, in Railway Magazine, page 57:Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly their due.
** 2010 December 16, European Court of Human Rights, A, B and C v. Ireland‎, number 25579/05, marginal 235:In the present case, and contrary to the Government’s submission, the Court considers that there is indeed a consensus amongst a substantial majority of the Contracting States of the Council of Europe towards allowing abortion on broader grounds than accorded under Irish law.
* (intransitive, obsolete) To give consent.
* (intransitive, archaic) To arrive at an agreement.

##### Derived terms

* accordance
* accordant
* according
* accordingly
* accordment
* accord with
* defence accord

##### Translations
### References

* ↑ “accō̆rd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
* ↑ “accord, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Anagrams

* Cradoc

## French
### Etymology

Deverbal from accorder. Compare with Catalan acord.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.kɔʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

accord m (plural accords)
* chord
* agreement
* permission, consent

#### Derived terms

* accord parfait
* accorder
* d’accord
* d’un commun accord
* désaccord

#### Descendants

* → Danish: akkord
* → German: Akkord
* → Norwegian Bokmål: akkord
* → Norwegian Nynorsk: akkord
* → Ottoman Turkish: اقورد (akord)
** Turkish: akor, akort
* → Persian: آکورد (âkord)
* → Swedish: ackord

### Further reading

* “accord”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* cocard

## Norman
### Etymology

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### Noun

accord m (plural accords)
* (Jersey) agreement