accord

About 8.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Agreement of opinion, will, or action.
2. noun Agreement in pitch and tone; harmony, musical concord.
3. noun Agreement or harmony of things in general.

   the accord of light and shade in painting

4. noun A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof.
5. noun An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
6. noun An international agreement.

   The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.

7. noun Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.

   Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord.

8. verb To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.

Similar words

accordance agree conformity grant rapport allot pact agreement treaty consort

Often followed by

with to and in the of on between was

Word family

accorded according accords