accord

Plural: accords

Noun

• harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters
• concurrence of opinion
  • "we are in accord with your proposal"
• a written agreement between two states or sovereigns
• sympathetic compatibility
• Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
• A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
• Agreement or harmony of things in general.
• A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof.
• An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
• An international agreement.
• Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.

Verb

Verb Forms: accorded, according, accords

• To bring into agreement or harmony.
• go together
• allow to have
• 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.

Examples

• After a long debate, our interpretations of the house rules came into accord.
• Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord.
• the accord of light and shade in painting
• The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.

Synonyms

accordance, agree, agreement, allot, concord, conformity, consort, fit in, grant, harmonise, harmonize, pact, treaty, assent, consent, render, sit

Antonyms

disagreement

Related Words

bon-accord, chord