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noun

Concord n.

A state of agreement; harmony; union. "Love quarrels oft in pleasing concord end."

Agreement by stipulation; compact; covenant; treaty or league. (Obs.) "The concord made between Henry and Roderick."

(Gram.) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case.

(Old Law) 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.

(Mus.) An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.

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

verb

Concord v. i. To agree; to act together. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Concord'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Concord" Quotes from Famous Books

... filled with addresses to the first consul, congratulating him on his escape from this danger; this incessant repetition of the same phrases, bursting from every corner of France, offers such a concord in slavery as is perhaps unexampled in the history of any other people. You may in turning over the Moniteur, find, according to the different epochs, exercises upon liberty, upon despotism, upon philosophy, and upon religion, in which the departments and good cities of France strive ...

— Ten Years' Exile • Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Baronne (Baroness) de Stael-Holstein

... May her navies ever glide, With concord in their lead, Ranging free Every sea, Far and wide; And at their country's need, With thunders in their lead, May the ocean ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... of construction, undoubtedly adopted to avoid confusion and discord among so many thousand workmen,[58] has been selected as an elementary symbol of concord and harmony—virtues which are not more essential to the preservation and perpetuity of our own society than they are to that of ...

— The Symbolism of Freemasonry • Albert G. Mackey

... they could have agreed. There was a big oven and a roomy fire-place. Good Deacon Wales had probably seen no reason at all why his "beloved wife" should not have her right therein with the greatest peace and concord. ...

— The Pot of Gold - And Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins

... streets. During the siege of Boston, the house was given up to soldiers for barracks. Captain Lemuel May was one of the minute-men who responded to the reveille at the break of day on the 19th of April, 1775, and fought valiantly for his country at Lexington and concord. This house, of the seventeenth-century pattern, has maintained its original features until very recently, carefully preserved from any sign of neglect or decay. Possibly a hasty view of the interior of tee old homestead will interest us. Entering by the front porch, ...

— Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain • Harriet Manning Whitcomb

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