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concord

/ˈkɒnkɔːd/ noun

In Latin: ūnitās, concentus Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about concord at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. Capital of the state of New Hampshire; located in south central New Hampshire on the Merrimack river.
  2. 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.
  3. The determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations.

verb

  1. Go together.
    The colors don't harmonize
  2. Arrange by concord or agreement.
    Concord the conditions for the marriage of the Prince of Wales with a commoner
  3. Arrange the words of a text so as to create a concordance.
    The team concorded several thousand nouns, verbs, and adjectives

Origin

From French concorde, Latin concordia, from concors (“of the same mind, agreeing”); con- + cor, cordis (“heart”). See heart, and compare accord.

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