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
• (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. (chiefly 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

• concordance cosmology
• concordancer
• concordantial
• disconcordance
• seroconcordance

 

Translations

agreement — see also agreement

• Bulgarian: съгла́сие (bg) n (sǎglásie), хармо́ния (bg) f (harmónija)
• Catalan: concordança
• Finnish: yhtäpitävyys (fi), sopusointu (fi)
• 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)
• Ukrainian: зла́годженість f (zláhodženistʹ), узго́дженість (uk) f (uzhódženistʹ)

alphabetical index

• Armenian: համաբարբառ (hy) (hamabarbaṙ)
• Dutch: concordantie (nl) f
• Finnish: konkordanssi (fi)
• Georgian: სიმფონია-ლექსიკონი (simponia-leksiḳoni)
• German: Konkordanz (de) f
• Hungarian: konkordancia (hu), szómutató (hu)
• Indonesian: konkordansi (id)
• Malay: konkordans
• Norwegian: konkordans m
• Portuguese: índice remissivo m
• Russian: конкорда́нция (ru) f (konkordáncija), конкорда́нс (ru) m (konkordáns), симфо́ния (ru) f (simfónija)
• Spanish: concordancias (es) f pl

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

• concordance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

   Coordinate term: discordance

Derived terms

• concordance des temps