Cord Definition

kôrd
cords
noun
cords
A thick string or thin rope.
Webster's New World
A slender length of flexible material usually made of twisted strands or fibers and used to bind, tie, connect, or support.
American Heritage
Any force acting as a tie or bond.
Webster's New World
A hangman's rope.
American Heritage
A slender, flexible, insulated electrical cable, as one fitted at one end with an electrical plug to connect a lamp to an outlet.
Webster's New World
verb
cords
To fasten, connect, or provide with a cord or cords.
Webster's New World
To furnish with a cord.
American Heritage
To stack (wood) in cords.
Webster's New World
To furnish with cords.
Wiktionary

To flatten a book during binding.

Wiktionary
idiom
cut the cord
  • to cease being overdependent, as upon one's parents
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Cord

Noun

Singular:
cord
Plural:
cords

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Cord

Origin of Cord

  • From Old French corde, from Latin chorda, from Ancient Greek (Doric) χορδά (khorda), Ionic χορδή (khorde, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”)

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French corde from Latin chorda from Greek khordē gherə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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