CONCORDANCE

concordance

(noun) an index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts

harmony, concord, concordance

(noun) agreement of opinions

harmony, concord, concordance

(noun) a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

concordance (countable and uncountable, plural concordances)

Agreement; accordance; consonance.

Synonyms: accordance, agreement, consonance

(grammar, obsolete) Agreement of words with one another; concord.

Synonyms: agreement, concord

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.

(computational linguistics) A list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.

Source: Wiktionary


Con*cord"ance, n. Etym: [F., fr. LL. concordantia.]

1. Agreement; accordance. Contrasts, and yet concordances. Carlyle.

2. (Gram.)

Definition: Concord; agreement. [Obs.] Aschlam.

3. 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. His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance. Macaulay.

4. A topical index or orderly analysis of the contents of a book.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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