concordance

English
Excerpt from “A complete concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament” (sense 3).

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French concordance, from Late Latin concordantia.

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: con‧cor‧dance
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kənˈkɔːdəns/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /kənˈkɔɹdəns/

Noun

concordance (countable and uncountable, plural concordances)

  1. Agreement; accordance; consonance.
    Synonyms: accordance, agreement, consonance
    • 1850, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, Part Second, Chapter I:
      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.
  2. (grammar, obsolete) Agreement of words with one another; concord.
    Synonyms: agreement, concord
    Coordinate terms: government, regimen, rection (archaic)
  3. (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.
    • c. 1857, Thomas Macaulay, "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica,
      His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.
  4. (computational linguistics) A list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.

Derived terms

Translations

See also
  • KWIC (“keyword in context”)
  • Category:Concordances

Verb

concordance (third-person singular simple present concordances, present participle concordancing, simple past and past participle concordanced)

  1. (transitive) To create a concordance from (a corpus).
    • 2015, Wenzhong Li, Simon Smith, “Introduction”, in Bin Zhou, Simon Smith, Michael Hoey, editors, Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts (New Language Learning and Teaching Environments), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 2:
      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.

Further reading

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin concordantia.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɔ̃.kɔʁ.dɑ̃s/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

concordance f (plural concordances)

  1. accord, agreement, accordance, concurrence, consonance, concord

Derived terms

References
  1. “concordance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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