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agreement
English
Etymology
From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement.
Morphologically agree +? -ment
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????i?m?nt/
Noun
agreement (countable and uncountable, plural agreements)
- (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
- (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
- (uncountable, law) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
- (uncountable, linguistics, grammar) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
- Having clarified what we mean by ‘Person? and ‘Number?, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement. More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agree? with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.
- (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.
- 1650, John Donne, "Elegie XVII":
- Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].
- 1650, John Donne, "Elegie XVII":
Synonyms
- (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): concord, convention, covenant, meeting of the minds, pact, treaty; See also Thesaurus:pact
- (A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion): congeniality, concurrence, harmony, accord; See also Thesaurus:agreement
- (A legally binding contract): settlement
- (linguistics, grammar): concord, concordance
- (An agreeable quality): amenity, pleasantness, niceness
Coordinate terms
- (linguistics, grammar): rection
Hyponyms
- (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): conspiracy
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- consent, approval
See also
- consensus
- agreement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English agreement.
Noun
agreement m (invariable)
- agreement (pact, accord)
Anagrams
- magnerete
- mangerete
Middle English
Noun
agreement
- Alternative form of agrement
agreement From the web:
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resemblance
English
Alternative forms
- resemblaunce
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman resemblance, from Old French (compare French ressemblance).
Morphologically resemble +? -ance.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???z?mbl?ns/
Noun
resemblance (countable and uncountable, plural resemblances)
- The quality or state of resembling
- Synonyms: likeness, similitude, similarity
- That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
- A comparison; a simile.
- Probability; verisimilitude.
Synonyms
- likeness
Translations
Old French
Etymology
resembler +? -ance.
Noun
resemblance f (oblique plural resemblances, nominative singular resemblance, nominative plural resemblances)
- similarity (taken as a whole, the qualities than make two or more things similar)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (resemblance, supplement)
- resemblance on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub (has no entry, but lists one citation)
resemblance From the web:
- what resemblance means
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