according Meaning, Definition & Usage
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verb go together
accord; fit in; concord; consort; harmonise; harmonize; agree.
- The colors don't harmonize
- Their ideas concorded
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verb allow to have
accord; allot; grant.
- grant a privilege
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adjective satellite (followed by `to') in agreement with or accordant with
- according to instructions
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adjective satellite (followed by `to') as reported or stated by
- according to historians
WordNet
Ac*cord"ing participial adjective
Definitions
Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. "This according voice of national wisdom." Burke. "Mind and soul according well." Tennyson.According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay.
Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat.
✍ According to has been called a prepositional phrase, but strictly speaking, according is a participle in the sense of agreeing, acceding, and to alone is the preposition. Is all things well, According as I gave directions? Shak.
The land which the Lord will give you according as he hath promised. Ex. xii. 25.
Ac*cord"ing adverb
Definitions
Accordingly; correspondingly. Obs. Shak.