Concord
/'kɔɳkɔ:d/
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Definition
Noun:
- Agreement or harmony between people or groups: A state of peaceful agreement and cooperation.
- A formal treaty or agreement: A pact or covenant between parties.
- (Linguistics) Grammatical agreement: The correspondence between words in gender, number, case, or person (e.g., between a subject and its verb).
- A harmonious combination of sounds, especially in music: A pleasing combination of musical notes; a chord.
Verb:
- To agree or be in harmony: To be in a state of accord or concurrence.
- To arrange words to show their occurrences in context: To compile a list showing where words appear in a text.
- To bring into agreement: To cause to be in harmony or accord.
Examples
Noun:
- The two nations signed a concord to end the conflict.
- There was perfect concord among the committee members on the decision.
- In the sentence "He runs," the verb "runs" shows concord with the singular subject "He."
- The composer achieved a beautiful concord in the final chord.
Verb:
- Their opinions on the matter concord perfectly.
- The scholar concorded all the major works of the author for her research.
- The mediator tried to concord the differing viewpoints.
Advanced Usage
- "In concord with": In agreement or harmony with something.
- His actions were not in concord with his stated principles.
- "A concord of sweet sounds": A pleasing harmony of musical notes (a poetic or literary phrase).
Variants and Related Words
- Concordance (n): An alphabetical index of the principal words in a book or body of work, showing their contexts.
- She used a concordance to study word frequency in the Bible.
- Concordant (adj): Being in agreement or harmony.
- The results were concordant with the initial hypothesis.
Synonyms
- Agreement (n): Harmony or accordance in opinion or feeling.
- Accord (n/v): Official agreement or harmony.
- Harmony (n): The combination of simultaneously sounded musical notes to produce a pleasing effect; agreement or concord.
Related Phrases
- To live in concord: To coexist peacefully and harmoniously.
- The diverse community learned to live in concord.
Idioms
- A marriage of true concord: A union characterized by perfect harmony and agreement (often used in a literary context).
- Their partnership was a marriage of true concord, both in business and in life.
Noun
- the first battle of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775)
- agreement of opinions
- town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought
- the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations
- a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole
- capital of the state of New Hampshire; located in south central New Hampshire on the Merrimack river
Verb
- be in accord; be in agreement
- We agreed on the terms of the settlement
- I can't agree with you!
- I hold with those who say life is sacred
- Both philosophers concord on this point
- arrange the words of a text so as to create a concordance
- The team concorded several thousand nouns, verbs, and adjectives
- arrange by concord or agreement
- Concord the conditions for the marriage of the Prince of Wales with a commoner
- go together
- The colors don't harmonize
- Their ideas concorded