Meaning of Concord | Babel Free
ˈkɒnkɔːdDefinitions
- A state of agreement; harmony; union.
- Any of several places:
- A number of places in the United States:
- A variety of sweet American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters; a Concord grape.
- A census-designated place in Jefferson County, Alabama.
- An agreement by stipulation; a compact; a covenant; a treaty or league.
- A town in Cleburne County, Arkansas.
- Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case.
- A city in Contra Costa County, California.
- 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.
- An unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware.
- An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; a consonance; a harmony.
- A town in Pike County, Georgia.
- A village in Morgan County, Illinois.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in DeKalb County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
- A city in Lewis County, Kentucky.
- A township in Somerset County, Maine.
- A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and a site of the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
- A village in Jackson County, Michigan.
- An unincorporated community in Dodge County, Minnesota.
- A census-designated place in St. Louis County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Callaway County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Pemiscot County, Missouri.
- A village in Dixon County, Nebraska.
- The capital city of New Hampshire, United States, and the county seat of Merrimack County.
- A town and hamlet in Erie County, New York.
- A neighborhood of Staten Island, New York.
- A city, the county seat of Cabarrus County, North Carolina.
- An unincorporated community in Clermont County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
- An unincorporated community in Knox County, Tennessee.
- An unincorporated community in Cherokee County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Leon County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Rusk County, Texas.
- A town and census-designated place in Essex County, Vermont.
- A census-designated place in Appomattox County and Campbell County, Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Brunswick County, Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Gloucester County, Virginia.
- A town and unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Wisconsin.
- A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Concord Township.
- A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- A suburb and industrial district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- A village in the town of Washington, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3057).
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Alternative letter-case form of concord (“Concord grape”). alt-of
- Concorde
Equivalents
Examples
“Love-quarrels oft in pleaſing concord end, / Not wedlock-treachery endangering life.”
“the concord made between King Henry II and Roderick O'Connor”
“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 and a warranty.”
“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.”
“This concord was the foundation or substance of the fine; being, in form and in fact, the grant or conveyance intended to be given, and was acknowledged either openly in court, or before one of the judges, or before two or more commissioners empowered by a special authority. With this acknowledgment, all the essential parts of the fine were completed.”
“The foot of a fine was a copy of an agreement ( the final concord ) reached in a court of law, usually the Court of Common Pleas, following a dispute over land ownership.”
“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.”
“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.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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