Concordance

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: con + cor + dance
• RP IPA: /kÉ™nˈkɔːdÉ™ns/
• US IPA: /kÉ™nˈkɔɹdÉ™ns/

Alternative forms

• concordaunce

Origin

From French, from Late Latin concordantia.

Full definition of concordance

Noun

1. agreement; accordance; consonance
• unknown date Thomas CarlyleContrasts, and yet concordances.
2. (grammar, obsolete) concord; agreement.
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.