concordance

Syllables: con·cor·dance/kənˈkɔːdəns/US/kənˈkɔɹdəns/

concordance noun: agreement; accordance; consonance.

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Noun

concordance (countable and uncountable, plural concordances)

Agreement; accordance; consonance.
- 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.1850, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, Part Second, Chapter I
Synonyms:

accordance, agreement, consonance
(obsolete) Agreement of words with one another; concord.

Synonyms:

agreement, concord
(chiefly biblical studies) A listing, often lemmatized and alphabetized, showing the places in a text, especially the Bible, where each word or phrase may be found, and its immediate context in each place.
- His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.c. 1857, Thomas Macaulay, "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica
1. (chiefly biblical studies) A listing, usually tokenized, where every word or phrase in a corpus can be found alongside its immediate context in each usage.
The probability that a pair of individuals will both have a certain characteristic (phenotypic trait) given that one of the pair has the characteristic.
A patient's compliance with a medicinal prescription.

Verb

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

(transitive) To create a concordance from (a corpus).
- 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.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...

concordance meaning in Tamil, Malay, Indonesian and Persian

concordance in Tamil

சொல் தொடர் அகரமுதலி, சொல் தொடர் அகராதி, இசைவு

concordance in Malay

alphabetical index: konkordans

concordance in Indonesian

alphabetical index: konkordansi

concordance in Persian

alphabetical index: واژهیاب

Synonyms of concordance

Forms of concordance

Noun
plural	concordances
alternative form	concordaunce
Verb
third-person singular present	concordances
present participle	concordancing
past participle	concordanced
past	concordanced

Plural of concordance: concordances

Origin of concordance

From Old French concordance, from Late Latin concordantia.

Words formed from concordance

Phrases with concordance

concordance cosmologies

Questions about concordance

What does concordance mean?: Concordance means agreement; accordance; consonance.
What is concordance in Tamil?: Concordance in Tamil is சொல் தொடர் அகரமுதலி, சொல் தொடர் அகராதி, இசைவு. See Concordance meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is concordance?: Concordance can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce concordance?: Concordance is pronounced /kənˈkɔːdəns/ (UK).
What is the plural of concordance?: The plural of concordance is concordances.

Words near concordance in the dictionary

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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