concordance

English

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

Alternative forms

• concordaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French concordance, from Late Latin concordantia.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: con‧cor‧dance
• IPA^(key): /kənˈkɔːdəns/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• 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

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.
   • 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.

Translations

agreement

• Bulgarian: съгла́сие (bg) n (sǎglásie), хармо́ния (bg) f (harmónija)
• Catalan: concordança
• Finnish: yhtäpitävyys (fi), sopusointu (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Romanian: concordanță (ro) f, acord (ro) n, potrivire (ro) f, armonie (ro) f
• Russian: согла́сие (ru) n (soglásije), согласо́ванность (ru) f (soglasóvannostʹ), согласова́ние (ru) n (soglasovánije)

agreement — see agreement

alphabetical index

• Armenian: համաբարբառ (hy) (hamabarbaṙ)
• Dutch: concordantie (nl) f
• Finnish: konkordanssi (fi)
• German: Konkordanz (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: konkordancia, szómutató (hu)
• Indonesian: konkordansi (id)
• Norwegian: konkordans m
• Russian: конкорда́нция (ru) f (konkordáncija), конкорда́нс (ru) m (konkordáns), симфо́ния (ru) f (simfónija)

See also

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

Further reading

• concordance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin concordantia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.kɔʁ.dɑ̃s/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

concordance f (plural concordances)

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

Derived terms

• concordance des temps