v. 1
To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
v. 2
To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations will be the acid test of their good will.
n. 1
Agreement of opinion, will, or action.
n. 2
Agreement in pitch and tone; harmony, musical concord.

Related words

Word family: accordance accordant according accordingly

Forms

Plural: accords → accordances, harmonies, conformities, unanimities…
Past participle: accorded
e.g. accorded → harmonized, concorded, corresponded, comported…

Choose the right word

Accord, Concord or Harmony?

Concord implies more volition than accord; as, their views were found to be in perfect accord; or, by conference concord was secured; we do not secure accord, but discover it. We may speak of being in accord with a person on one point, but harmony is wider in range.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

conform I often felt pressured to conform, but I resisted.
concord Where there is concord, there is always victory.
harmonize Such language doesn't harmonize with his character.
comport When you are in Rome, comport yourself as a Roman.
bestow That's a real strongman, bestow upon him a goblet of wine!

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
accord		falling
conform		falling
concord		steady
harmonize		steady
comport		steady
bestow		steady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters: fit¹, sit¹
4 letters: give¹, suit¹, tune¹, pact¹, jibe¹, gibe¹
5 letters: check¹, allow², agree², award², grant¹, yield¹, adapt², tally², chime¹, amity³, allot², deign¹
6 letters: answer², square¹, treaty², render², unison³, confer², concur², impart², bestow², assent², accede², attune², cohere²
7 letters: consent², harmony³, consist², concord², conform², concede², consort², rapport², comport²
8 letters: sympathy³, coincide³, quadrate
9 letters: agreement³, harmonize³, unanimity⁵, harmonise, vouchsafe
10 letters: accordance³, compensate³, correspond³, conformity⁴, consonance, consonancy
11 letters: concurrence³, concordance
12 letters: acquiescence⁴
13 letters: understanding⁴

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (allow² = 2 syllables).