Definition of "accord" in English

noun

1. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.

2. A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.

3. Agreement or harmony of things in general.

   • the accord of light and shade in painting

4. (countable, perfumery) A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof.

5. (law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.

6. (international law) An international agreement.

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

7. Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.

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

verb

1. (transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.

2. (transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.

3. (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.

4. (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.

5. (transitive, law) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.

6. (intransitive, obsolete) To give consent.

7. (intransitive, archaic) To arrive at an agreement.