DISCORD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does discord mean? 

• DISCORD (noun)
  The noun DISCORD has 4 senses:

1. lack of agreement or harmony

2. disagreement among those expected to cooperate

3. a harsh mixture of sounds

4. strife resulting from a lack of agreement

  Familiarity information: DISCORD used as a noun is uncommon.

• DISCORD (verb)
  The verb DISCORD has 1 sense:

1. be different from one another

  Familiarity information: DISCORD used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISCORD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lack of agreement or harmony

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

discord; strife

Hypernyms ("discord" is a kind of...):

disorder (a disturbance of the peace or of public order)

Derivation:

discord (be different from one another)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Disagreement among those expected to cooperate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

discord; dissension

Hypernyms ("discord" is a kind of...):

disagreement (the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "discord"):

confrontation (discord resulting from a clash of ideas or opinions)

division; variance (discord that splits a group)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A harsh mixture of sounds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

discord; discordance

Hypernyms ("discord" is a kind of...):

dissonance (disagreeable sounds)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Strife resulting from a lack of agreement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

discord; discordance

Hypernyms ("discord" is a kind of...):

strife (bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension)

• DISCORD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they discord    ... he / she / it discords   
Past simple: discorded   
Past participle: discorded   
-ing form: discording   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be different from one another

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

disaccord; disagree; discord

Hypernyms (to "discord" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

discord (lack of agreement or harmony)

discordance (strife resulting from a lack of agreement)

discordant (not in agreement or harmony)

discordant (lacking in harmony)

 Context examples 

A double negative jarred him like a discord, and often, from lack of practice, it was from his own lips that the jar came.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I was a discord in Gateshead Hall: I was like nobody there; I had nothing in harmony with Mrs. Reed or her children, or her chosen vassalage.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As can experiences of trauma, such as physical or sexual abuse, or being raised in a dysfunctional family in which there was a high degree of marital discord.

(Depression - men far more at risk than women in deprived areas, University of Cambridge)

Shortly before ten o'clock the stillness of the air grew quite oppressive, and the silence was so marked that the bleating of a sheep inland or the barking of a dog in the town was distinctly heard, and the band on the pier, with its lively French air, was like a discord in the great harmony of nature's silence.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance—a topic we should never discuss: the very name of love is an apple of discord between us.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)