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Accord   /əkˈɔrd/   Listen
Accord

noun
1.
Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters.  Synonym: agreement.
2.
Concurrence of opinion.  Synonyms: accordance, conformity.
3.
A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.  Synonyms: pact, treaty.
4.
Sympathetic compatibility.
verb
(past & past part. accorded; pres. part. according)
1.
Go together.  Synonyms: agree, concord, consort, fit in, harmonise, harmonize.  "Their ideas concorded"
2.
Allow to have.  Synonyms: allot, grant.



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"Accord" Quotes from Famous Books



... They will not harm you, and if any of them are still here you can give me the alarm. I do not think they will fire on a poor defenceless girl, and I at least may escape, until I shall be ready to go among them of my own accord." ...
— The Deerslayer • James Fenimore Cooper
... out of the room to remove my hat and speak to Mrs. Barton. When I came back he was standing before Charlie's photograph, and evidently studying it with some attention, but he made no remark about it; and I told him of my own accord that it was the portrait of my twin-brother, who had died ...
— Uncle Max • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... and soft, Cora. Besides, I can get up myself, thank you," and, with an assumption of dignity that did not at all accord with her plump and merry countenance and figure, Bess Robinson tried ...
— The Motor Girls on Waters Blue - Or The Strange Cruise of The Tartar • Margaret Penrose
... Therefore in case of imminent danger it becomes necessary for her to cast out the entire brood which then wretchedly perish, and for this reason it is to be recommended to disturb or disquiet these animals during this period as little as possible. Even after the young leave the mother of their own accord, they always flee to her protecting mouth, and thus they present an exciting aspect, when they are first seen peacefully and contentedly playing about the mother fish, until a shadow or a sudden thrust warns them of ...
— Evolution - An Investigation and a Critique • Theodore Graebner
... world—his determination to use prose aiding him vastly in this dissemination—yet it is to Norway that he belongs, and it is at home that he is best understood. No matter how acrid his tone, no matter how hard and savage the voice with which he prophesied, the accord between his country and himself was complete long before the prophet died. As he walked about, the strange, picturesque little old man, in the streets of Christiania, his fellow-citizens gazed at him with a little fear, but with some affection ...
— Henrik Ibsen • Edmund Gosse


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