discord

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Lack of concord, agreement, harmony; disaccord.

   “A false witnesse that speaketh lies; and him that soweth discord among brethren.”

   “The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire; […]”

2. (countable, uncountable)Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
3. (countable, uncountable)Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.

   “[…] For a Diſcord it ſelfe is but a Harſhneſſe of Diuers Sounds Meeting.”

4. (countable, uncountable)An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
5. (informal)A Discord server.

   ““I definitely looked at that [the FSU Holy Trinity Discord server] and I looked at other Discord servers that I made in the past. I wanted to see what channels worked. … But by looking at other FSU Discords on campus, I was able to get inspiration from that,” she [Sarah Sagan] said.”

   ““I like to use Discord because it works on my computer as well as on my phone,” senior Arman Sagmanligil said. “A lot of video games or YouTubers or streamers tend to have Discords that I can join where I can get notifications as to their streams or their videos being released.””

6. (informal)A Discord account.

   “Most days, she falls asleep with her Discord on; while some days, she barely even sleeps at all.”

   “Finally my PC was ready and I clicked in to my Discord. They’d made a new DM group chat.”

   “Even though I have my pronouns pasted everywhere — my Instagram, my Discord, my LinkedIn, my email signature — so many people I interact with daily still do not get the hint.”

verb

1. (archaic, intransitive)To disagree; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.

   “[…] Sometimes the one Iarring and diſcording with the other, and making a Confuſion; […]”

2. (rare, transitive)To untie things which are connected by a cord.

name

1. (Internet)An instant messaging and VoIP social platform which allows communication through voice calls, video calls, text messaging, and media.