concord means any of several places:; A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Jefferson County, Alabama.
concord is pronounced /ˈkɒn.kəɹd/.
Why “concord” is a great word
A state of agreement or harmony between people or groups, or a formal agreement such as a treaty. From Middle English *concorde*, from Old French *concorde*, from Latin *concordia* ("agreement, union"), from *concors* ("of the same mind, agreeing"), from *con-* ("together") + *cor, cordis* ("heart"), thus literally meaning "hearts together," first attested in the 14th century. Unlike "accord," which suggests a spontaneous harmony of feeling, or "treaty," which is a strictly ratified pact between states, concord denotes a deliberate and sustained resonance, whether of sentiment or statute. It is the synchronized breath of a choir finding its pitch, the mason's careful fitting of stone to stone in a wall meant to last, or the fading ink on a parchment that ended a war—the rare and fragile condition where separate hearts choose, again and again, to beat as one.
Etymology
From French concorde, Latin concordia, from concors (“of the same mind, agreeing”); con- + cor, cordis (“heart”). See heart, and compare accord.
name
- Any of several places:; A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Jefferson County, Alabama.
- Any of several places:; A number of places in the United States:; A town in Cleburne County, Arkansas.
- Any of several places:; A number of places in the United States:; A city in Contra Costa County, California.
- Any of several places:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware.
- Any of several places:; A number of places in the United States:; A town in Pike County, Georgia.
- Any of several places:; A number of places in the United States:; A village in Morgan County, Illinois.
- Any of several places:; A number of places in the United States:; A township and unincorporated community therein, in DeKalb County, Indiana.
- Any of several places:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
- Any of several places:; A number of places in the United States:; A city in Lewis County, Kentucky.
- Any of several places:; A number of places in the United States:; A township in Somerset County, Maine.
- Any of several places:; A number of places in the United States:; A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and a site of the Battle of Lexington and Concord.“Newton joins Brookline and a dozen other towns that have adopted similar bans, including Belchertown, Chelsea, Concord, Malden, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Melrose, Needham, Pelham, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, and Winchester, according to the state Department of Public Health.”
- Any of several places:; A number of places in the United States:; A village in Jackson County, Michigan.
- Any of several places:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Dodge County, Minnesota.
- Any of several places:; A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in St. Louis County, Missouri.
- Any of several places:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Callaway County, Missouri.
noun
- A state of agreement; harmony; union.“Love-quarrels oft in pleaſing concord end, / Not wedlock-treachery endangering life.”
- An agreement by stipulation; a compact; a covenant; a treaty or league.“the concord made between King Henry II and Roderick O'Connor”
- Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case.
- An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See fine.“The concord or agreement may be made of an estate and fee-simple, fee-tail, or life or for years; it may be also of divers remainders, and that to them that are no parties but strangers to the fine; it may be also single or double, with a render back again of some estate of the same land or some rent out of it; so a concord may have in it reservation of rent, a clause of distress or nomine poenae ”
- An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; a consonance; a harmony.“If the true concord of well tuned ſounds, / By vnions married to offend thine eare, / They do but ſweetly chide thee, who confounds / In ſingleneſſe the parts that thou ſhould'ſt beare.”
- A variety of sweet American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters; a Concord grape.
verb
- To agree; to act together.“1660-1667, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon
too many of their old Friends and Associates, ready to concord with them in any desperate Measures”
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