accord
/əˈkɔːd
/- This was rejected, however, and full constitutional recognition was accorded to them.
- Sandback has never received the recognition accorded his minimalist peers.
- The necklace suggests that the deceased had been accorded high status.
Synonyms
- This fact accords with results of previous studies, but given the scant data and the magnitude of the values, no conclusions can be drawn.
- However that contention does not accord with the facts.
- He needs to know that this trial presupposes certain immutable facts that conform to sense and reason and accord with perfect justice.
Synonyms
- Months after his visit in 1996, peace accords were signed.
- In 1996, peace accords were signed to bring an end to the armed conflict and to strike at the root causes of war.
- Today, with peace accords signed, open elections have decided the current government.
Synonyms
- Our experts are in accord: nothing builds legs like squats because they're a compound movement that stimulates all major muscles of the legs.
- The two men were in accord as to how the world ‘should’ work.
- Indeed, they were not just in accord: they were symbiotic.
Synonyms
Phrases
in accord with
of one's own accord
with one accord
Origin
Old English, from Old French acorder 'reconcile, be of one mind', from Latin ad- 'to' + cor, cord- 'heart'; influenced by concord.
chord from Middle English:
The sense of a group of musical notes was originally spelt cord and was a shortening of accord (Middle English) in the sense ‘bring into harmony’, which came from Latin accordere literally ‘to bring to heart’. The accordion (mid 19th century) ultimately gets its name from the same source. The sort of chord found in mathematics is also a respelling of cord, but this time in the sense ‘rope’. This was a Middle English word from Latin chorda, which came in turn from Greek khorde ‘gut, string of a musical instrument’. The spellings of both chords was changed to be more like their classical sources.