Pronunciation Noun
discord
- Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Proverbs 6:19 ↗:
- A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
- Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire.
- Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
- (music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
- Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- For a discord itself is but a harshness of divers sounds meeting.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- German: Uneinigkeit, Streit
- Italian: discordia, dissenso, zizzania
- Portuguese: discórdia
- Russian: разногла́сие
- Spanish: discordia, desencuentro
- French: discorde
- German: Zwietracht
- Italian: discordia, dissenso
- Portuguese: discórdia
- Russian: раздо́р
- Spanish: discordia
- German: Missklang, Lärm
- Italian: dissonanza
- Portuguese: discórdia
- German: Dissonanz, Kakophonie
- Italian: dissonanza
- Portuguese: discórdia
- Russian: диссона́нс
discord (discords, present participle discording; past and past participle discorded)
- (intransitive, archaic) To disagree; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- the one discording with the other
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
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