Definition of CONCORDANCE

concordance

Meanings

Plural: concordances

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
  • agreement of opinions
  • an index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts
  • Agreement; accordance; consonance.
  • Agreement of words with one another; 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.
  • A list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.

Verb

  • To create a concordance from (a corpus).

Origin / Etymology

From Old French concordance, from Late Latin concordantia.

Scrabble Score: 18

concordance is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
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Words With Friends Score: 23

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