Definitions for the word "accord" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. v. t.
Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. i.
To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. i.
To agree in pitch and tone.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v.
1 (often foll. By with) be consistent or in harmony. 2 grant (permission, a request, etc.); give (a welcome etc.). n. 1 agreement, consent. 2 mus. & art etc. Harmony. of one''s own accord on one''s own initiative; voluntarily. With one accord unanimously. [latin cor cord- heart]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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