CHORD
What does "CHORD" mean?
A group of musical notes sounded together in harmony.
Meanings
- Three or more musical notes played or sung at the same time. She strummed a single minor chord and the whole room went quiet.
- A straight line joining two points on a curve. In geometry, a diameter is the longest possible chord of a circle. technical
- An emotional response, especially one of sympathy or recognition. Her speech struck a chord with every parent in the audience. figurative
Did you know?
- The 'h' in 'chord' is a historical error: the music word is a clipping of 'accord', but writers later bolted on an 'h' to make it look like 'chorda', the unrelated Greek word for a string.
Word origin
A 16th-century shortening of 'accord' (harmony of sound); the spelling was later reshaped to resemble Latin 'chorda', a string.
Remember it
A musical CHORD has an H (Harmony); a rope CORD does not.
A little poem
Three strings agree, and from the wood there swells
a single sound that no one string can tell.
couplet
Wordplay
- Why did the geometry student love the guitar? Every string was just another chord to measure.
What it teaches
Harmony is just disagreement that learned to sound at the same time.
Quick facts
What does CHORD mean?
A group of musical notes sounded together in harmony.
Is CHORD a valid word?
Yes — CHORD is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CHORD?
CHORD has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does CHORD come from?
A 16th-century shortening of 'accord' (harmony of sound); the spelling was later reshaped to resemble Latin 'chorda', a string.
What can CHORD teach us?
Harmony is just disagreement that learned to sound at the same time.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.