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accord
English
Etymology
- First attested in the late 13th century.
- From Middle English accorden, acorden, borrowed from Old French acorder (compare modern French accord and accorder), from Vulgar Latin *accord?, accord?re (“to be heart to heart with”), formed from Latin ad + cor (“heart”).
- The verb is first attested in early 12th century.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??k??d/
- (US) IPA(key): /??k??d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
Noun
accord (countable and uncountable, plural accords)
- Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
- 1769, The King James Bible - Oxford Standard Text, Acts 1:14
- These all continued with one accord in prayer.
- 1769, The King James Bible - Oxford Standard Text, Acts 1:14
- A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
- Agreement or harmony of things in general.
- (law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
- (international law) An international agreement.
- (obsolete) Assent
- Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
Synonyms
- (concurrence of opinion): consent, assent
- (international agreement): treaty
Derived terms
- of one's own accord
- with one accord
Related terms
- chord
Translations
Verb
accord (third-person singular simple present accords, present participle according, simple past and past participle accorded)
- (transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
- (transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
- (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
- (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
- (transitive, law) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To give consent.
- (intransitive, archaic) To arrive at an agreement.
Translations
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Deverbal of accorder. Compare with Catalan acord.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.k??/
Noun
accord m (plural accords)
- chord
- agreement
- permission, consent
Derived terms
- accord parfait
- accorder
- d'accord
- d'un commun accord
- désaccord
Descendants
- ? Danish: akkord
- ? German: Akkord
- ? Norwegian Bokmål: akkord
- ? Norwegian Nynorsk: akkord
Further reading
- “accord” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- cocard
Norman
Etymology
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Noun
accord m (plural accords)
- (Jersey) agreement
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likeness
English
Etymology
From Middle English liknesse, from Old English l?cness, ?el?cnes (“the quality of being like or equal; likeness; image; copy; pattern; example; parable”), from Proto-West Germanic *gal?kanass? (“likeness”), equivalent to like +? -ness. Cognate with West Frisian likenis (“likeness”), Dutch gelijkenis (“similarity; likeness; parable”), German Low German Glieknis (“form; semblance; likeness; parable”), German Gleichnis (“form; semblance; image; likeness; parable; simile”). The verb is derived from the noun. Compare also Old Norse líkneskja (“figure, image, appearance, likeness”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la?kn?s/
- Hyphenation: like?ness
Noun
likeness (plural likenesses)
- The state or quality of being like or alike
- 1822, Connop Thirlwall translating Ludwig Tieck, The Pictures
- Erich thought he observed a likeness between the stranger and a relative of Walther; this led them into the chapter of likenesses, and the strange way in which certain forms repeat themselves in families, often most distinctly in the most remote ramifications.
- Synonyms: similitude, resemblance, similarity
- 1822, Connop Thirlwall translating Ludwig Tieck, The Pictures
- Appearance or form; guise.
- A foe in the likeness of a friend
- Genesis, I, 26
- And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- That which closely resembles; a portrait.
- How he looked, the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.
Synonyms
- similarity
Derived terms
- mislikeness
Related terms
- like
Translations
Verb
likeness (third-person singular simple present likenesses, present participle likenessing, simple past and past participle likenessed)
- (archaic, transitive) To depict.
- 1857, April 25, Alfred Lord Tennyson, letter to Reginald Southey, in Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon Jr. (editors), The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Volume II: 1851-1870, Belknap Press (1987), ?ISBN, page 171:
- I have this morning received the photographs of my two boys. The eldest is very well likenessed: the other, perhaps, not so well.
- 1868, November, advertisement, in Arthur's Home Magazine, Volume XXXII, Number 21, after page 320:
- Every member of the family [of General Grant] is as faithfully likenessed as the photographs, which were given to the artist from the hands of the General himself, have power to express.
- 1857, April 25, Alfred Lord Tennyson, letter to Reginald Southey, in Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon Jr. (editors), The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Volume II: 1851-1870, Belknap Press (1987), ?ISBN, page 171:
See also
- copy
- portrait
- analogy
- alikeness
Anagrams
- eelskins
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