Concordance

Quick meaning: Concordance is a noun meaning Agreement; accordance; consonance.

Meaning

Agreement; accordance; consonance.

More Meanings

1. (grammar, obsolete) Agreement of words with one another; concord.
2. (computational linguistics) A list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.
3. (transitive) To create a concordance from (a corpus).
4. (genetics) The probability that a pair of individuals will both have a certain characteristic (phenotypic trait) given that one of the pair has the characteristic.
5. (chiefly biblical) An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.

Example Sentences

John Sterling at Herstmonceux that afternoon, and his Father here in London, would have offered strange contrasts to an eye that had seen them both. Contrasts, and yet concordances.

Different from concordances of the Bible or classic works in the western tradition, which were basically complete concordances of a specific single book, the Chinese Lei Shu usually concordanced miscellaneous books.

Word Forms

• concordances
• concordaunce
• concordancing
• concordanced

Synonyms for concordance

Depending on context, synonyms include accordance, agreement, consonance, concord, harmony.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include concord, harmony, accordance, concurrence, congruence, consistency.

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