Concordance meaning

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An alphabetical index of all the words in a text or corpus of texts, showing every contextual occurrence of a word.

A concordance of Shakespeare's works.

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The definition of concordance is an agreement, or an alphabetical list of primary words used by an author.

An example of a concordance is two friends agreeing to go into business in a certain way.

An example of a concordance is a list showing how many times the word Jesus shows up in the Bible and in what passages.

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Agreement; concord.
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The presence of a given trait in both members of a pair of twins.
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Agreement; harmony.
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An alphabetical list of the chief words used in a book or by a writer, with the passages in which they occur identified or cited.
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Agreement; concord.
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The presence of a given trait in both members of a pair of twins.
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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.
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(computational linguistics) A list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.
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Origin of concordance

  • From French, from Late Latin concordantia.
    From Wiktionary

Concordance Sentence Examples

  • Such concordance gives strong support to the theory of diffusion outlined above.

  • With the aid of many of his order he edited the first concordance of the Bible (Concordantiae Sacrorum Bibliorum or Concordantiae S.

  • Among other aids should be mentioned the Index Homericus of Seber (Oxford, 1780); Prendergast's Concordance to the Iliad (London, 1875); Dunbar's id.

  • Allowing for incomplete ionization the general concordance of these numbers with the theoretical ones is very striking.

  • The " Tableau methodique " offers a convenient concordance of the old Planches enluminees and its successor, and is arranged after the system set forth by Temminck in the first volume of the second edition of his Manuel d'ornithologie, of which something must presently be said.

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