- (music) three or more notes played togetherTopics Musicc2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- major
- minor
- C
- …
- play
- strum
- change
- progression
- sequence
- …
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- (mathematics) a straight line that joins two points on a curve
Word Originsense 1 Middle English cord, from accord. The spelling change in the 18th cent. was due to confusion with chord in the mathematical sense. The original sense was ‘agreement, reconciliation’, later ‘a musical concord or harmonious sound’; the current sense dates from the mid 18th cent.sense 2 mid 16th cent. (in the anatomical sense): a later spelling (influenced by Latin chorda ‘rope’) of cord.
Idioms
See chord in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarystrike/touch a chord (with somebody)
- to say or do something that makes people feel sympathy or enthusiasm
- The speaker had obviously struck a chord with his audience.
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