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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To cause to conform or agree; bring into harmony.
2. v. To grant, especially as being due or appropriate: accorded the President the proper deference.
3. v. To bestow upon: I accord you my blessing.
4. v. To be in agreement, unity, or harmony. See Synonyms at agree.
5. n. Agreement; harmony: act in accord with university policies.
6. n. A settlement or compromise of conflicting opinions.
7. n. A settlement of points at issue between nations.
8. n. Spontaneous or voluntary desire to take a certain action: The children returned on their own accord. He confessed of his own accord.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To agree; be in correspondence or harmony.
2. To make an agreement; come to an understanding.
3. To make to agree or correspond; adapt, as one thing to another.
4. To bring to an agreement or a settlement; settle, adjust, or compose; reconcile: as, to accord controversies.
5. To grant; give; concede: as, to accord due praise to any one.
6. n. Agreement; harmony of minds; consent or concurrence of opinions or wills; assent.
7. n. A union of different sounds which is agreeable to the ear; concord; harmony.
8. n. Agreement; just correspondence of things; harmony of relation: as, the accord of light and shade in painting.
9. n. Will; voluntary or spontaneous impulse or act; unaided action or operation: preceded by own.
10. n. Adjustment of a difference; reconciliation: as, the mediator of an accord.
11. n. Specifically, in law, an agreement which is made between parties for the settlement of a liability or controversy, and which, when executed, that is, carried into effect, is termed an accord and satisfaction, and bars or terminates a suit; a private extra-judicial agreement or arrangement.
12. n. In music, same as chord.
13. n. Milit., the conditions under which a fortress or command of troops is surrendered.

Wiktionary

1. n. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
2. n. A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
3. n. Agreement or harmony of things in general.
4. n. law An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
5. n. international law An international agreement.
6. n. obsolete Assent
7. n. Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
8. v. transitive To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
9. v. transitive To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
10. v. intransitive To agree or correspond; to be in harmony.
11. v. intransitive To agree in pitch and tone.
12. v. transitive, dated, law To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
13. v. intransitive, obsolete To give consent.
14. v. intransitive, archaic To arrive at an agreement.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
2. n. Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord.
3. n. Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things.
4. n. Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own.
5. n. (Law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.
6. v. rare To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to.
7. v. To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things.
8. v. To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award.
9. v. To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to.
10. v. To agree in pitch and tone.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a written agreement between two states or sovereigns
2. n. sympathetic compatibility
3. v. go together
4. n. concurrence of opinion
5. n. harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters
6. v. allow to have