concert
concert is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To plan; to devise; to arrange. A commander had more trouble to concert his defense before the people than to plan . . . the compaign. Burke.
- 2.To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans. The ministers of Denmark were appointed to concert with Talbot. Bp. Burnet
- 3.Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opions and viewa; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action. All these discontens, how ruinous soever, have arisen from the want of a due communication and concert. Swift.
- 4.Musical accordance or harmony; concord. Let us in concert to the season sing. Cowper.
- 5.A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part. Visit by night your lady's chamber window With some sweet concert. Shak. And boding screech owls make the concert full. Shak. Concert pitch. See under Pitch.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absonant
- advisedly
- aforethought
- agree
- agreement
- aid
- all
- alliance
- along
- and
- assent
- beforehand
- blood
- cacophonous
- cacophony
- calculated
- caterwauling
- cause
- cleavers
- coagency
- coincide
- coincidence
- cold
- common
- conclusion
- concur
- concurrence
- concurrent
- concurring
- conduce
- consent
- consilience
- conspire
- contribute
- cooperate
- cooperation
- cunning
- deliberately
- discord
- discordance
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is concert.
- What is to plan; to devise; to arrange. A commander had more trouble to concert his defense before the people than to plan . . . the compaign. Burke called?
- What is to act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans. The ministers of Denmark were appointed to concert with Talbot. Bp. Burnet called?
- What is musical accordance or harmony; concord. Let us in concert to the season sing. Cowper called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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