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Definitions: Accede |
AccedeVerb1. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure". 2. Be compatible or in accordance with; "You must adhere to the rules". 3. To agree or express agreement: "Yes, the Maestro assented.". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "accede" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Accede \Ac*cede"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Acceded; present participle verb or noun Acceding.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: AccedeSynonyms: acquiesce (v), adhere (v), assent (v), bow (v), defer (v), give in (v), submit (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: dissent (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assent | Verb: assent; give assent, yield assent, nod assent; acquiesce; agree; receive, accept, accede, accord, concur, lend oneself to, consent, coincide, reciprocate, go with; be at one with; Adjective: go along with, chime in with, strike in with, close in with; echo, enter into one's views, agree in opinion; vote, give one's voice for; recognize; subscribe to, conform to, defer to; say yes to, say ditto, amen to, say aye to. |
Consent | Verb: consent; assent; yield assent, admit, allow, concede, grant, yield; come round, come over; give into, acknowledge, agnize, give consent, comply with, acquiesce, agree to, fall in with, accede, accept, embrace an offer, close with, take at one's word, have no objection. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Accede |
| English words defined with "accede": accede to, Acceded, Acceding, Advene ♦ To close with. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "accede": Access, Accessible, Accession. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Accede" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (agree with, approach, be added to, come near, constitute). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The Allied and Associated Powers reserve to themselves the right to arrive at an understanding in this connection with Holland, and Germany hereby agrees to accede if required to any such understanding. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Romania | The government is preparing to accede to the OECD convention on combating bribery, but is not yet a signatory. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | This, and certain other intellectual property concerns, are being addressed under the TRIPS agenda issue, in connection with Saudi Arabia's application to accede to the WTO. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | The European electorate in Rhodesia, however, showed little willingness to accede to African demands for increased political participation and progressively replaced more moderate party leaders. (references) | |
Human Rights | Saudi Arabia | The independence of the judiciary is prescribed by law and usually is respected in practice; however, judges occasionally accede to the influence of the executive branch, high-ranking members of the royal family and their associates, who are not required to appear before the courts. (references) |
Political Economy | TAIWAN | Taiwan has been lowering tariffs significantly in recent years, both as part of its effort to accede to the WTO as well as to fulfill other policy objectives. (references) |
OMAN | Oman's record on intellectual property protection has improved dramatically in recent years, in tandem with its now successful efforts to accede to the World Trade Organization (WTO). (references) | |
Trade | Saudi Arabia | This is particularly important in connection with Saudi Arabia's bid to accede to the WTO. (references) |
Taiwan | In February 1999, Taiwan waived tariffs on 15 aircraft components as part of plans to accede to the WTO. (references) | |
Botswana | Angola and Seychelles have indicated they will accede to the trade protocol soon, but the intention of the DROC is unknown. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Accede" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 92.00% of the time. "Accede" is used about 100 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 92% | 92 | 34,282 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 100 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "accede": accede to ♦ accede to the throne. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
accede | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "accede"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | aansluit (associate, come together, join, pool), toetree tot (join). (various references) | |
Albanian | miratoj (accept, adopt, approbate, approve, assent, confirm, consent, countenance, enact, Favor, favour, pass, ratify, recognize, root for, sanction, vote in), marr (acquire, assume, bring, catch, claim, collect, contract, draw, get, have, land, make, obtain, occupy, pick up, possess, realize, receive, score, take, take in, take out). (various references) | |
Arabic | قبل (accept, admit, agree to, approve of, assent, be accepted, before, concede, consent, fore, in front of, kiss, ok, okay, okey, previous, previously, prior, sanction, settle for, subscribe, take, until), وافق (accept, accord, agree, approbate, approve, assent, assert, compound, consent, fit, grant, jump, nod, ok, okay, okey), تبوأ منصبا, إنضم إلى حزب, إنضم (associate, bunch, combine, enter, join, range). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съгласявам се (accede to, acquiesce, agree, assent, buy, comply, concur, consent, grant, jibe, say the word, see, yield), възкачвам се на престола (accede to the throne), отстъпвам (accede to, backpedal, backslide, backtrack, comply, concede, defer, deliver, draw back, fall back, give, give back, give ground, give in, give up, give way to, knuckle under, part with, release, retire, retreat, retrocede, say uncle, stand aside, stand back, step back, submit, succumb, vail), присъединявам се (accede to, latch, tie up). (various references) | |
Chinese | 同意 (Acceded, Acceding, Agree, Agreed, Agreeing, Assent, Assented, Assenting, Concur, Concurred, Concurring, Consent, Consented, Consenting), 俞 . (various references) | |
Czech | souhlasit (acquiesce, agree, approve, assent, consent, endorse, ok, okay, tally), přistoupit (approach, come nearer). (various references) | |
Danish | samtykke (accommodation, accord, agree, agreement, consent, mutual understanding). (various references) | |
Dutch | lid worden (affiliate, join). (various references) | |
Esperanto | aniĝi, membriĝi, konsenti (agree, consent). (various references) | |
Faeroese | samtykkja (agree, consent), koma upp í (join), fara upp í (join). (various references) | |
Farsi | موافقت کردن (Acquiesce, Admit, Agree, Assent, Comply, Concur, Grant, Jibe, Obey, Okay), نزدیک شدن (Approach, Near, Nigh, Verge), ناءل شدن (Agree, Attain, Gain), تن دردادن (Acquiesce, Acquiescence, Own), رسیدن (Achieve, Aim, Amount, Arrive, Attain, Come, Gain, Get, Land, Receive, Strand), رضایت دادن (Acquiesce, Assent, Consent), راه یافتن , دست یافتن (Achieve, Attain). (various references) | |
Finnish | suostua (accept, agree, assent, consent), liittyä (associate, attach oneself to, become a member of, come together, enter, join, pool). (various references) | |
French | consentir (acquiesce). (various references) | |
German | zustimmen (agree, agree to, agree with, approve, assent, be right, chime in with, consent, considered, go along, jibe, to agree, to assent, to concern, to consent, to considered), einwilligen (acquiesce, agree, comply, consent, to acquiesce, to consent), beipflichten (agree, chime in with, consent, to accede). (various references) | |
Greek | συναίνω (acquiesce, assent, concur, consent), προσχωρώ (affiliate, join), ανέρχομαι (amount, amount to, come to, go up, run up to). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"עתר (grant a request), ל"ע ות (assent, be answered, comply, respond), ל"סכים (accept, accord, agree, approve, assent, consent, grant, subscribe). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megegyezik (agree, clinch, come to an agreement, comport, compound, concur, to accord, to agree, to covenant, to equal, to gibe, to parallel, to tally, to unite), hivatalt elfoglal, egyezik (agree, consent, hitch, to accord, to agree, to check, to check up, to hitch, to square, to tally), csatlakozik (adjoin, affiliate, join, join in, link, to abut, to affiliate, to fall into line, to fall into line with, to rally). (various references) | |
Indonesian | naik (aboard, ascend, increasing, rising, up), menyetujui (accept, accord, acquiescent, adopt, agree, approve, approving, assent), mengabulkan (accept, grant). (various references) | |
Italian | concordare (accord, agree, arrange, check, check out, coincide, concur, conform, consent, make agree, reconcile, settle), accedere (access, approach, enter), esserer d'accordo (agree, consent). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 聞き入れる (to accede, to comply with, to grant), わる (to accede to, to gain in, to increase, to join in), 将軍家 (family positioned to accede to the shogunate). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ききいれる (to accede, to comply with, to grant), くわわる (to accede to, to gain in, to increase, to join in), しょうぐ"け (family positioned to accede to the shogunate). (various references) | |
Lombard | mettess d'accord (agree, consent). (various references) | |
Malay | setuju (agree, consent). (various references) | |
Manx | roshtyn (accession to power, arrive, arriving, attain, come within, reach, reaching). (various references) | |
Norwegian | imøtekomme (accede to, accommodate, cater), etterkomme (accede to). (various references) | |
Papiamen | konsentí (agree, consent). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | accedeay.(various references) | |
Polish | zgadzać się, przyłączyć się, dołączyć się. (various references) | |
Portuguese | concordar (accept, accord, adhere, agree, approbate, assent, assort, bring into agreement, chime, close, cohere, comply, concur, consent, correspond, cotton, covenant, emboss, let, own, subscribe, yes). (various references) | |
Romanian | apropia (approach, approximate, bring near), ajunge (accomplish, achieve, arrive, attain, become, bump, come, do, end up, gain, get, hit, land, manage, overtake, reach, secure, suffice, that will do, touch), adera (adhere), adãuga (add, adjoin, affix, amplify, annex, append, attach, augment, complete, enclose, enlarge, extend, follow up with, prefix, schedule, superinduce, supervene, supplement, swell, tack), acord (accession, accord, accordance, agree, agreement, arrangement, assent, cheer, chord, coincidence, compact, compliance, composition, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruity, consent, consentaneity, consistency, contract, convention, correspondence, covenant, harmony, key, permit, solidarity, treaty, understanding, uniformity, union, unison, unity), subscrie (club, sign, subscribe, undersign, underwrite), se alãtura (follow, join), consimţi (admit, consent, will). (various references) | |
Russian | соглашаться (agree, agrees, assent, assented, assenting, assents, comply, concur, consent, countenance, homologate, run in). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | složiti se (agree, assent, bear out, come round, concede, match), pristati (accept, agree, assent, comply, consent, dock, go in, side). (various references) | |
Spanish | acordar (accord, agree, agree on, agree upon, arrange, consent, look back, resolve, settle, tune, tune up), declarar (acknowledge, adjudge, adjudicate, admit, agree, announce, come out, confess, consent, contract, declare, find, plead, proclaim, profess, pronounce, register, return, set out, start, state, testify). (various references) | |
Swahili | kubali (agree, consent). (various references) | |
Swedish | tillträda (accede to, assume, enter upon, take over), biträda (accede to, accomodate, aid, assist, help, support). (various references) | |
Tagalog | sumásangayon (agree, consent). (various references) | |
Turkish | yönetime geçmek, tahta çıkmak (accede to the throne, ascend the throne, succeed to the crown, throne), razı olmak (acquiesce, agree, approve, assent, comply, consent, fall with, settle for), muvafakat etmek (agree, consent), kabul etmek (accept, acknowledge, acquiesce, admit, adopt, affiliate, agree, allow, approve, assent, avow oneself, be sold on, certify, consent, enfranchise, enrol, fall in with, Favor, favour, go along with, grant, have, honor, honour, own, receive, recognize, regard as, say yes, settle for, sustain, take, take in, thole, turn thumbs up on, witness), iktidara gelmek. (various references) | |
Ukranian | вступати (enlist, enter, enter into, tread), збільшуватися (accrue, aggrandize, enlarge, expand, grow, increase, lengthen, multiply, run up, vegetate, wax), приставати (accost, adhere, badger, board), при"днуватися (come over, identify oneself with, join, subscribe), примикати, погоджуватися (accept, admit, allow, comply, concede, concur, consent, give in, grant, hold with, homologate). (various references) | |
Welsh | cytuno (accord, agree, consent), cydsynio (acquiesce, assent, consent). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | accedere. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 27, Verse 26 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai eipen autw isaak o pathr autou eggison moi kai filhson me teknon |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Dixit ad eum accede ad me et da mihi osculum fili mi |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Seide to hym, Come nerre to me, and yyue to me a cosse, sone myn. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And his father Isaac sayde vnto him: come nere and kysse me my sonne. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And his father Isaac said to him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And his father Isaac said to him, Come near now, my son, and give me a kiss. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 27, Verse 26 |
| Bulgarian | А баща му Исаак му рече: Приближи се сега и целуни ме, синко. |
| Cebuano | Ug miingon kaniya si Isaac nga iyang amahan: Dumuol ka karon, ug halokan mo ako, anak ko. |
| Chinese | 他 父 親 以 '' 對 他 說 、 我 ' 、 上 前 來 與 我 親 嘴 。 |
| Croatian | Poslije toga reèe mu njegov otac Izak: "Primakni se, sine moj, i poljubi me!" |
| Danish | Derpå sagde hans Fader Isak til ham: "Kom hen til mig og kys mig, min Søn!" |
| Dutch | En zijn vader Izak zeide tot hem: Kom toch bij, en kus mij, mijn zoon! |
| Finnish | Senjälkeen hänen isänsä Iisak sanoi hänelle: "Tule tänne ja suutele minua, poikani". |
| French | Alors Isaac, son père, lui dit: Approche donc, et baise-moi, mon fils. |
| German | Und Isaak, sein Vater, sprach zu ihm: Komm her und küsse mich, mein Sohn. |
| Haitian Creole | Izarak, papa l', di l': -Pwoche non, pitit mwen. vin bo m'. |
| Hungarian | Akkor monda néki Izsák az õ atyja: Jer közelebb fiam, és csókolj meg engem. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu berkatalah ayahnya kepadanya, "Marilah lebih dekat lagi, Nak, dan ciumlah saya." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka kata Ishak, bapanya, kepadanya: Marilah hampir, ciumlah akan daku, hai anakku! |
| Italian | Poi suo padre Isacco gli disse: «Avvicinati e baciami, figlio mio!». |
| Korean | 그 아 비 이 삭 이 그 에 게 이 르 되 ` 내 아 " 아, 가 까 이 와 서 내 게 입 맞 " 라` |
| Maori | Katahi ka mea a Ihaka, tona papa, ki a ia, Nuku mai nei, ka kihi i ahau, e taku tama. |
| Modern Greek | Και ειπε προς αυτον Ισαακ ο πατηρ αυτου, λησιασον τωρα, και φιλησον με, τεκνον μου. |
| Norwegian | Så sa Isak, hans far, til ham: Kom nu hit og kyss mig, min sønn! |
| Portuguese | Disse-lhe mais Isaque, seu pai: Aproxima-te agora, e beija-me, meu filho. |
| Rumanian | Atunci tatql squ Isaac i -a zis: ,,Apropie-te dar, wi sqrutq-mq, fiule.`` |
| Russian | йУББЛ, ПФЕ" ЕЗП, УЛБЪБМ ЕНХ: П"ПК"Й, П"ЕМХК НЕОС, УЩО НПК. |
| Spanish | Entonces le dijo su padre Isaac: --Acércate, por favor, y bésame, hijo mío. |
| Swedish | Därefter sade hans fader Isak till honom: "Kom hit och kyss mig, min son." |
| Thai | แล้วอิสอัคบิ"าของเขาจึงพู"กับเขาว่า "ลูกเอ๋ย เข้ามาใกล้และจุบพ่อ" |
| Ukrainian | І промовив до нього Ісак, його батько: Підійди ж, і поцілуй мене, сину мій! |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "accede": acceded, acceder, acceders, accedes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "accede": reaccede. (additional references) | |
Words containing "accede": reacceded, reaccedes. (additional references) | |
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"Accede" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abcede, acade, Accardo, accedi, acceed, accele, accese, accide, accidet, accidie, accive, acede, aceed, acide, Acuerdo, Akcije, akede, akeed, akkede, ascede, asceed, axceed, eccede, Mccredie, Mccudden. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "accede" (pronounced aksē"d) |
| 4 | -k s ē" d | exceed, succeed. |
| 3 | -s ē" d | cede, concede, intercede, precede, proceed, recede, reseed, secede, seed, supersede. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e" | |
-2 letters: aced, cade, ceca, cede, dace. | |
-3 letters: ace, cad, cee, dee. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, de, ed. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e" | |
+1 letter: acceded, acceder, accedes, cadence. | |
+2 letters: acceders, accented, accepted, accessed, accreted, cacheted, cadenced, cadences, canceled, reaccede. | |
+3 letters: accidence, bechanced, cadencies, cancelled, cathected, chickadee, coalesced, cocreated, coenacted, concealed, decadence, decadency, desiccate, peacocked, reacceded, reaccedes, reaccused. | |
+4 letters: acceptedly, accidences, accoutered, accredited, acquiesced, ascendance, ascendence, ascendency, brecciated, candescent, catechized, checkmated, chickadees, decadences, decametric, delicacies, desiccated, desiccates, encroached, exsiccated, incandesce, reacceding, reaccented, reaccepted, reaccredit, spectacled, succedanea, unaccented, unaccepted, uncanceled. | |
+5 letters: accelerando, accelerated, accentuated, accessioned, adjacencies, adolescence, antecedence, archdiocese, ascendances, ascendences, bactericide, beachcombed, buccaneered, candescence, charactered, checkmarked, chucklehead, confederacy, consecrated, convalesced, decadencies, decalcified, decalcifies, decorticate, democracies, desiccative, excruciated, incandesced, incandesces, overcoached, placekicked, precanceled, reaccredits, recontacted, succedaneum, uncoalesced, unconcealed, wisecracked. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 63 63 65 64 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.-. -.-. . -.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100011 01100011 01100101 01100100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c c e d e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0063 0065 0064 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)356969717071 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Historic 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Bible Trace | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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