accord
accord Lexical Profile
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• noun
An official agreement or treaty concluded between parties, states, or organizations.
"The two neighboring nations signed a historic trade accord after months of diplomatic negotiations."
Harmonious agreement or correspondence in opinion, feeling, or purpose.
"The committee members were in complete accord regarding the new curriculum standards."
Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act (used almost exclusively in the phrase 'of one's own accord').
"She decided to step down from the board of her own accord."
• verb
To grant or bestow power, status, or recognition upon someone or something.
"The university accorded the visiting scholar the highest academic honors."
To be harmonious or consistent with something (typically followed by 'with').
"His account of the evening does not accord with the documented timeline."
Word Nuance & Usage
Do not confuse 'accord' with the musical term 'chord'. As a noun, 'accord' frequently appears in the fixed idiom 'of one's own accord', meaning voluntarily or without external prompting.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French 'acorder', ultimately from Vulgar Latin 'accordare' ('to be of one mind'), formed from 'ad-' ('to') and 'cor' ('heart').
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