accede

First attested in the early 15th century. From Middle English acceden, from Latin accēdō (“approach, accede”), formed from ad (“to, toward, at”) + cēdō (“move, yield”) (English cede). Compare French accéder. Unrelated to ascend, aside from the common ad prefix.

• IPA^(key): /əkˈsiːd/, /ækˈsiːd/, /əˈsiːd/

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• Rhymes: -iːd

accede (third-person singular simple present accedes, present participle acceding, simple past and past participle acceded)

1. (archaic, intransitive) To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
2. (intransitive, now rare) To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of.
3. (intransitive) To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
   • 1895, J W Powell, “Preface”, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page iii:

     But in 1874 the editors of Scribner’s Monthly requested me to publish a popular account of the Colorado exploration in that journal. To this I acceded and prepared four short articles, which were elaborately illustrated from photographs in my possession.

   • 2007 November 18, Leslie Feinberg, “'Big lie' and breakup of Yugoslavia”, in Workers World‎:

     Some of the countries of Eastern Europe had already acceded to all the privatization and austerity measures drawn up by imperialist bankers. The Socialist Federation of Yugoslavia was the last of the Eastern European workers' states trying to hold on to what was left of its planned, socialized framework of production and its collective ownership.

4. (intransitive) To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position).
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 32:

     Maintenon had been governess to the children in the late 1670s before acceding to the king's favours.

5. (intransitive) To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.

(to agree, to come to an office, to become a party to): Use with the word to afterwards (i.e., accede to).

• (to join a group): band together, enroll
• (agree to a proposal or a view): come around, concede, agree, acquiesce, assent, comply, concur, consent, (obsolete) comprobate, (obsolete) astipulate; See also Thesaurus:accede

• (antonym(s) of “to join a group”): leave, secede, split off

• accedence
• acceder
• nonacceding
• reaccede

• accession

• “accede”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• acceed

• IPA^(key): /atˈt͡ʃɛ.de/
• Rhymes: -ɛde
• Hyphenation: ac‧cè‧de

accede

1. third-person singular present indicative of accedere

• ecceda

accēde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of accēdō

Borrowed from French accéder.

• IPA^(key): /ak.ˈt͡ʃe.de/
• Rhymes: -ede
• Hyphenation: ac‧ce‧de

a accede (third-person singular present accede, past participle acces) 3rd conjugation

1. (intransitive) to accede, to reach (a place)

• “accede”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

accede

1. inflection of acceder:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative