concord

Noun (1)

concord (countable and uncountable, plural concords)

1. A state of agreement; harmony; union.
   • Love-quarrels oft in pleaſing concord end, / Not wedlock-treachery endangering life.1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 62
2. (obsolete) An agreement by stipulation; a compact; a covenant; a treaty or league.
   • the concord made between King Henry II and Roderick O'Connor1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
3. Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case.

   Synonyms:

   agreement, concordance

4. (obsolete) 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...1792, Edward Wood, John Joseph Powell, A Complete Body of Conveyancing: In Theory and Practice, page 548
   • And in all these, and such like cases, as before, where the concord is not formal, the judges ought not to receive the fine nor suffer it to pass; but if they do, and the fine be finished, it cannot afterwards be avoided by writ of error, or otherwise, for these faults.1808, William Sheppard, The Touchstone of Common Assurances
5. (probably influenced by chord) 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.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 8”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC

Noun (2)

UK/ˈkɒnkəːd/US/ˈkɑnkɚd/

concord (plural concords)

1. A variety of sweet American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters; a Concord grape.

Verb

UK/kənˈkɔːd/US/kənˈkɔɹd/

concord (third-person singular simple present concords, present participle concording, simple past and past participle concorded)

1. (intransitive) To agree; to act together.
   • too many of their old Friends and Associates, ready to concord with them in any desperate Measures1660-1667, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon

Proper noun capitalized: Concord

IPA/ˈkɒn.kəɹd/California/ˈkɒŋ.kɚd/

Concord

1. A census-designated place in Jefferson County, Alabama.
2. A town in Cleburne County, Arkansas.
3. A city in Contra Costa County, California.
4. An unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware.
5. A town in Pike County, Georgia.
6. A village in Morgan County, Illinois.
7. A township and unincorporated community therein, in DeKalb County, Indiana.
8. An unincorporated community in Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
9. A city in Lewis County, Kentucky.
10. A township in Somerset County, Maine.
11. 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.2025 January 22, Nick Stoico, “Newton city council approves generational tobacco ban, joining other Mass. towns”, in Boston Globe, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2025
12. A village in Jackson County, Michigan.