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
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
28 November 2024
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
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