concordance en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /kənˈkɔɹdəns/ (US)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /kənˈkɔːdəns/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Old Latin com Latin cum Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd- Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr ~ *ḱr̥dés Proto-Italic *kord Latin cor Latin concors Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin concordō Late Latin concordantiader. Old French concordanceder. English concordance From Old French concordance, from Late Latin concordantia.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) 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:
- (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Agreement of words with one another; concord.
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(countable, qualifier:chiefly biblical studies, uncountable) 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.
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.
- (countable, qualifier:chiefly biblical studies, uncountable) 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. ▸ A listing, usually tokenized, where every word or phrase in a corpus can be found alongside its immediate context in each usage.
- (countable, uncountable) The probability that a pair of individuals will both have a certain characteristic (phenotypic trait) given that one of the pair has the characteristic.
- (countable, uncountable) A patient's compliance with a medicinal prescription.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| concordaunce | alternative | lexicographic | |
| concordances | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
government · regimen · rection
Deriveds
concordance cosmology · nonconcordance · seroconcordance · disconcordance · concordantial · concordancer
Relateds
Synonyms
consonance · agreement · concord · agreement · accordance
Translations (39)
nl concordantie (alphabetical index) · ms konkordans (alphabetical index) · bg съгла́сие (agreement — see also agreement, concordancy) · pt índice remissivo (alphabetical index) · fi yhtäpitävyys (agreement — see also agreement, concordancy) · ro armonie (agreement — see also agreement, concordancy) · ro acord (agreement — see also agreement, concordancy) · bg хармо́ния (agreement — see also agreement, concordancy) · ru согласо́ванность (agreement — see also agreement, concordancy) · fi konkordanssi (alphabetical index) · ro concordanță (agreement — see also agreement, concordancy) · es concordanza (agreement — see also agreement, concordancy) · ru симфо́ния (alphabetical index) · hu konkordancia (alphabetical index) · ru конкорда́нция (alphabetical index) · de Übereinstimmung (agreement — see also agreement, concordancy) · es concordancias (alphabetical index) · no konkordans (alphabetical index) · fa واژهیاب (alphabetical index) · pl konkordancja (alphabetical index) · ro potrivire (agreement — see also agreement, concordancy) · ca concordança (agreement — see also agreement, concordancy) · de Konkordanz (alphabetical index) · ka სიმფონია-ლექსიკონი (alphabetical index) · pl zgodność (agreement — see also agreement, concordancy) · id konkordansi (alphabetical index) · fr concordance (alphabetical index) · hu szómutató (alphabetical index) · fr concordance (agreement — see also agreement, concordancy) · uk зла́годженість (agreement — see also agreement, concordancy) · hy համաբարբառ (alphabetical index) · uk узго́дженість (agreement — see also agreement, concordancy) · eo konkordanco (alphabetical index) · he קוֹנְקוֹרְדַּנְצִיָּה (alphabetical index) · ru конкорда́нс (alphabetical index) · ru согласова́ние (agreement — see also agreement, concordancy) · ru согла́сие (agreement — see also agreement, concordancy) · es concordanza (alphabetical index) · fi sopusointu (agreement — see also agreement, concordancy)