accord

1. 1.

   go together

   “The colors don't harmonize”

   “Their ideas concorded”

   Synonymsharmonizeharmoniseconsortconcordfit inagree

   Broadermatch

   Narrowercoordinateblend
2. 2.

   allow to have

   “grant a privilege”

   Synonymsallotgrant

   Broadergive

   Narrowergiveenfranchise

Other forms of accord

plural

accords·

past tense

accorded·

present participle

according·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about accord

What does accord mean?

accord means "harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in accord?

accord has 2 syllables: ac-cord. The stress falls on "cord". In IPA it is /əˈkɔɹd/.

What is another word for accord?

Close synonyms include agreement, conformity, accordance, treaty, pact. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is accord a common word?

accord is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with accord?

8 words rhyme with accord. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.